Sketches of a Bedouin Campfire at Night, Palestine (Israel)
date: label: Date
content: February–March 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure and landscape sketch showing a view of a Bedouin campfire at night, viewed by the artist en route to Petra. At left, two Bedouin guides and two camels are dimly lit beside the fire. The figure at right is shown in silhouette from the back while the figure at left holds a long pipe to his illuminated face. A camel is shown behind him in right profile, while the face of another emerges from the darkness at upper right. Darkness otherwise envelopes the scene. At upper right, a detail of a Bedouin guide looking back at the artist is included, while at right, six small sketches of camels and draped figures are visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of mountains in the deserts of present-day Israel. Sandy terrain with bushes extends from the foreground into the background, where a range of mountains with flat tops forms an undulating horizon.
place: label: made in
content: Palestine, present-day Israel
label: place depicted
content: Palestine, present-day 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: 1917-4-947
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 × 17.1 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)