Camel Studies, Palestine or Syria
date: label: Date
content: February 21–22, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Field studies showing four views of the heads and necks of camels, divided into pairs by a line across the middle. In upper section, the darkened silhouette of the upper portion of a camel is visible. Below this, a sketch of a camel head, viewed obliquely, is included. In lower portion, two camel heads are shown in profile. One, at left, is rendered with greater detail, and the other, at right, is more of an outline that shows the camel opening its mouth.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape study showing mountainous terrain near Petra, near the present-day border of Jordan and Israel. In foreground, rocky slopes and prominences at left and right converge into a flat stretch at center. In middle distance, a flat plain extends into the distance, where it meets a tall, rugged mountain range. A group of clouds hangs in the sky above, at right.
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: 1917-4-469
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: 17 × 8.6 cm (6 11/16 × 3 3/8 in.)