Camels and Riders with Storm-Tossed Ship
date: label: Date
content: April–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 of groups of camels and Bedouin riders with a vignette of a sea-tossed ship. At left, three saddled and yoked camels are shown with two standing figures dressed in draped clothing. At upper right, three very similar camels are shown--one of which is ridden and another is guided by a standing figure with his back turned. At lower right, a hasty sketch shows a double-masted ship attempted to crest a large wave amid dark and stormy seas.
label: Description
content: Verso: Small figure sketch at upper left showing two groups totaling eight camels and seven Bedouin riders, seen at a distance from the viewer and backlit by the sun. Their elongated shadows stretch toward us.
place: label: made in
content: Israel (then Palestine) or Jordan (then Syria)
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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: 1917-4-443
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green paperboard; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 24.5 × 44.1 cm (9 5/8 × 17 3/8 in.)