Mounted Bedouin Guide, Palestine or Syria
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: Figures study of one of Church's Bedouin guides riding a camel during the artist's expedition to Petra. Viewed obliquely, this guide wears a headdress and draped clothing and wields a long spear. In the upper left corner, a sketch of a seated figure wrapped in draped clothing is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed studies from Church's expedition to Petra, showing four views of women wearing jilbabs (or full-body robes like hijabs), at center and upper left, a standing egret at center left, two sketches of a camel's head--showing obliquely and in profile in lower left--and finally, a loosely-rendered landscape study of an encampment in distant hills, visible along right margin and oppositely oriented.
place: label: made in
content: Jordan or Israel
label: place depicted
content: Jordan or 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: 1917-4-482
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: 16.8 × 8.6 cm (6 5/8 × 3 3/8 in.)