Oasis at Kadesh Barnea, Jordan
date: label: Date
content: February 22, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and figure sketch showing a view of camels resting among vegetation of an oasis near Petra, known to Church and his fellow travelers as the Biblical oasis of Kadesh Barnea. At center, two camels sit facing each other over a small pool of water. Grass and other vegetation is visible across the composition. Another camel stands at far left, facing the viewer. A figure stands nearby at right. Mountains rise in the background at right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Figure sketches showing three views of saddled camels at right--two viewed in profile and one frontally--and, at left and oppositely oriented, one of Church's Bedouin guides sleeps in his draped clothing, with his spear standing upright in the ground nearby.
place: label: made in
content: Jordan
label: place depicted
content: Jordan
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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: 1917-4-426
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 20.2 cm (4 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.)