Mixed Sketches with Figures
date: label: Date
content: January 1868 - May 1869
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches showing several partial and complete figures as well as two separate scenes. Along the upper margin, twenty-tree partial and complete figures are shown sitting and standing, typically from an elevated perspective. Several sketches of cloth headwear are strewn throughout. In the upper left corner, a figure is shown bending over in shallow water while a row boat floats nearby. At center right, the facade of a building is shown reflected in water before it. Brownish ground is visible throughout.
place: label: possibly made in
content: Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, 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: 1917-4-801
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 30.2 x 47.2 cm (11 7/8 x 18 9/16 in.)