Signed and dated, lower right (on stone fragment): F. E. Church | 1873

ca. 1873-74, James Frederick Joy (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1886, Mrs. James F. Joy (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1910-present, gift to the Detroit Museum of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Frederic Edwin Church, Syria by the Sea, 1873, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James F. Joy, 10.11.