Jews at the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem
date: label: Date
content: April 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure sketches showing multiple views of Jewish worshippers at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. At upper left, an elderly woman with glasses holds a book in front of her as she stands before the immense blocks of the Wailing Wall. Below her and beside her are three sketches of other individuals--two women and one man. The man is shown frontally with a long beard and a cap. At lower left, a view of a standing individual's two shoeless feet, and their discarded shoes, is included (removal of shoes was once an obligatory custom at the Wailing Wall, but is now optional). Finally, at lower right, a figure kneeling by the lower blocks of the Wall is viewed from behind.
place: label: made in
content: Jerusalem
label: place depicted
content: Jerusalem
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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: 1917-4-445
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 20.2 cm (4 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.)