Fisherman with Torch, Beirut, Syria (Lebanon)
date: label: Date
content: April 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure sketches showing four views of a man using a torch to spearfish at night in Beirut, Lebanon. At left, two sketches of him from the rear as he leans over the water are visible. At right, two frontal views are shown of the fisherman as he walks toward us, holding torch and spear aloft. These sketches are nearly identical, but he is closer at right and further away at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Field sketches showing two views of ships at sea near Beirut, Lebanon. In upper portion, a steamboat travels across the water, leaving interspersed puffs of smoke that expand as they distance themselves from the ship. In lower left, a sailboat with two masts and three sails is shown in profile.
place: label: made in
content: Beirut, Lebanon
label: place depicted
content: Beirut, Lebanon
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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: 1917-4-897
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white laid paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.2 × 21.3 cm (4 13/16 × 8 3/8 in.)