Woman Riding a Donkey
date: label: Date
content: 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure sketch of a woman riding a donkey in what was the Ottoman Empire, or present-day Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, or Israel. The pair faces to the left and the rider wears draped clothing, a headdress, and a dress as she positions her legs on one side of the animal. The donkey's ears are down, and a bit is harnessed to his head and neck.
place: label: probably made in
content: Palestine (present-day Israel)
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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: 1917-4-1130
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.9 × 11.3 cm (4 11/16 × 4 7/16 in.)