Sketches of Desert Mountain and Camels, Palestine (Israel)
date: label: Date
content: February or March 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 sketches showing views of a desert mountain and camels in the deserts of present-day Israel, en route to Petra. At upper center, a rocky, triangular, and extremely rugged mountain is loosely sketched, while along the upper margin, a camel and rider are faintly shown climbing a ridge. In the lower portion, four sketches of camels--two frontal, two in right profile--are included, showing the animals climbing a hill.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of a rugged canyon wall in the deserts of present-day Israel, possibly those of the El Yemen Valley. Stretching across the composition in the middle distance, the rock wall of a canyon is stretch with bands of rock strata and has several rugged pinnacles along its rim, which loom over the viewer.
place: label: made in
content: Palestine, present-day Israel
label: place depicted
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: 1917-4-943
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
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: 17.4 × 8.6 cm (6 7/8 × 3 3/8 in.)