Mixed Sketches, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)
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: Mixed sketches showing a rugged landscape, two plants, and two views of a camel with its rider in present-day Israel or Jordan. Along upper portion, a sketch of a landscape with several bluffs and prominences surrounding a river basin with vegetation is visible. Along lower portion and oppositely oriented, two botanical studies of a tree and a bush are included at right. In lower left, two views of a camel standing and sitting with its rider are visible, shown from behind.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch of a rugged valley with mountains extending to the horizon, and two sketches of a camel's head, viewed from behind, are visible at left and oppositely oriented.
place: label: made in
content: Israel or Jordan
label: place depicted
content: Israel or Jordan
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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: 1917-4-952
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 cm (3 3/8 × 6 11/16 in.)