Landscape with Figures and Donkeys, Syria
date: label: Date
content: April 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sketches from Syria showing an expansive mountain landscape and multiple sketches of figures and donkeys being ridden. In lower portion, the landscape's flat foreground extends into the middle distance, where it meets a rugged range of massive, snow-capped mountains. A standing figure is shown from the rear at extreme left. In upper portion, five donkeys (or perhaps three donkeys and two camels) are rendered with varying levels of detail. At upper left are two sketches of a rider upon a donkey, one in motion. At upper right, possibly two camels are led by a ridden donkey.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing three views of a mirrored mirage effect in the flat Syrian desert. In lowest sketch, the silhouette of a mountain range is visible. A tent is also shown in upper right corner.
place: label: made in
content: Syria
label: place depicted
content: Syria
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-921
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite and white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 20.9 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/4 in.)