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the Canadian Museum of History

the publisher’s identity is unmistakable: Canadian Pacific

Landscape near Petra by Frederic Edwin Church, 1868 wild west it is a piece ofLandscape near Petra (1868) by Frederic Edwin Church captures the vast, time sculpted terrain of southern Jordan with the poetic grandeur that made Church one of the leading lights of the Hudson River School. Painted after the artists wide ranging travels and amid 19thcentury fascination with biblical and archaeological sites, the scene evokes the remoteness and majesty of Petras surrounding desert. Churchs mastery of atmospheric light combines with