Mixed Sketches with Archway and Figures, Hebron, Palestine
date: label: Date
content: February 13, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed studies around the lazaretto (or quarantine station) of Hebron, Palestine, showing a pointed archway at upper center, and individuals engaged in daily activities throughout. At center, a possible potter leans over his kiln, with two vases on the ground at right. Partial figure and miscellaneous sketches are visible along right margin, including an arm holding a skin water pitcher, a hat, and two unfinished figures.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed studies around Hebron, Palestine, showing a landscape with an ocean view and foreground vegetation at left, a rectilinear stone Muslim tomb, viewed obliquely at upper right, and a shepherd wearing draped clothing and shown from behind at lower right.
place: label: made in
content: Hebron, Palestine
label: place depicted
content: Hebron, Palestine
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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: 1917-4-452
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 16 × 8.6 cm (6 5/16 × 3 3/8 in.)