Camel Legs, 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: Two oppositely-oriented sketches showing the fore and hind legs of a walking camel. At left, the head and front legs of the animal are shown, while its rear legs are visible at right. Each set of legs is shown in motion, mid-step.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and figure studies showing a distant and loosely rendered mountain range with billowing clouds above it, and at left and oppositely-oriented, a sketch of a Bedouin guide sitting on a rock with a water jug is visible. A detail of his head is shown in profile at center.
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: 1917-4-939
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 × 16.8 cm (3 3/8 × 6 5/8 in.)