Bedouin Tents with Figures, 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: Sketch of a large, pitched tent put up by Church's Bedouin guides on his expedition to Petra. At upper left, the bulging form of the tent resembles a mountain with many sharp peaks. One particularly tall, sharp peak rises above the others, in the middle of the tent, whose dark, triangular opening is visible at front. Top of another tent shown at center right. Four partial figures studies are also included along lower portion of composition. All figures are shown from rear--one walks with a goat and another appears to carry a bag or basket.
place: label: made in
content: Israel
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-457
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 20.7 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)