Figure Sketches with Landscape, Petra, Syria (Jordan)
date: label: Date
content: February 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure studies showing six partial and complete views of Church's Bedouin guides from behind, near Petra in present-day Jordan. Three are positioned horizontally across the center, fully rendered. Each is adorned in headwear and draped clothing--two wield rifles. Below them, there partial details of their heads are visible. Above, a sketch of two animals standing atop a ridge, rendered in outline, are visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed studies around Petra, in present-day Jordan. Along upper margin, two sketches of heads/faces are visible--one of a boy with a partially shaved haircut uncommon the U.S. at the time, viewed in profile, and a frontal view of the face of bearded man. At center, a loosely rendered sketch of a portion of a building's templefront facade is included. Below, three loose studies of figures and rocks are also visible.
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: 1917-4-949
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: 17.3 × 8.6 cm (6 13/16 × 3 3/8 in.)