Desert Landscape with Figure Sketches, Palestine (Israel)
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: Mixed studies around Palestine, showing a view of a rocky mountain in a desert, parts of a camel, and a figure. At center, a bulging, rugged prominence rises above rolling hills covered in brush. At left, two sketches of camel feet beside the head of a camel are visible. Next to these, two sketches of a human foot print and that of a camel are shown. A child walking in high winds is visible at lower right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape study showing a view of rolling terrain covered in low-lying bushes and brush, with a tall mountain range rising in the background. At lower left, a figure viewed from the rear is visible.
place: label: made in
content: Palestine
label: place depicted
content: Palestine
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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: 1917-4-946
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.)