Figure Sketches with a Donkey and Sailboat, Beirut, Lebanon
date: label: Date
content: January–March 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches from Beirut, Lebanon, showing thirteen partial and complete figures, a donkey, and a sailboat. Lined up along the lower portion are five complete figures mostly viewed from behind with a seated figure and three isolated heads. Many are dressed in traditional Turkish attire, including fezzes, salvar (Turkish trousers), and shoes with pointed toes. At upper center, an individual bathing and another wearing a draped robe are also included. At upper left, a laden donkey is viewed obliquely from the rear while a figure sits beside it at right. At upper right, a sailboat is viewed obliquely from the front.
label: Description
content: Verso: Sketches of fisherman hunting with fire at night near the coast of Beirut, Lebanon. At upper left, the fishermen's rowboat is shown in its entirety, as it carries three figures who hover a lighted torch over the water's surface to attract fish. At upper center, the boat is shown obliquely from the front, while just the boat's pointed bow is loosely sketched below it. At center right, the torch is sketched separately with embers and smoke carried off to the right. At center left, a small sketch of a sleeping dog is visible just above a light sketch of a woman's face.
place: label: made in
content: Beirut, Lebanon
label: place depicted
content: Beirut, Lebanon
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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: 1917-4-919
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on beige wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.4 × 21.1 cm (4 7/8 × 8 5/16 in.)