Desert Landscape en route to Petra, Palestine (Israel)
date: label: Date
content: February 19, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of a mountainous desert landscape in present-day Israel, observed by the artist while en route to Petra. In the immediate foreground at lower, a pile of crumbling rocks is loosely sketched. In the middle distance at center, a group of camel riders grow smaller as they recede into the distance. In the background at center, a rocky mountain with a rounded peak is prominently visible beneath sunbeams that cascade down from above. Rugged, mountainous terrain extends into the extreme distance at left and right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Figure sketches of camels and their riders, observed in present-day Israel while en route to Petra. Along the upper margin, three sketches of a camel are visible: at left, the whole camel viewed obliquely from the rear, at center, a camel's rear leg viewed from the side, and at right, a detail of the camel's tail and rear leg. At center, two Bedouin riders are loosely shown from behind. At lower center, two other riders holding long spears are sketched smaller.
place: label: made in
content: Ottoman Empire (present-day Israel)
label: place depicted
content: Ottoman Empire (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: 1917-4-945
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: 8.6 × 17.1 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)