Figure and Camel Sketches from Gaza, Palestine
date: label: Date
content: March 4 and 5, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sketches from Gaza, Palestine, showing several views of camels and figures. In the upper portion of the composition, three loose sketches of a camel ploughing are visible. At center left, a female figure wearing a dark, ornamented veil (typical in Bedouin attire) looks back at the viewer as she carries a large pot on her head. At center right, a lone plough is included above a seated and a standing camel, both viewed from behind. Another camel is shown in left profile at lower right, while at lower left, a pair of individuals faces the viewer.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches from Ashkelon, present-day Israel, showing at left, lines of Arabic writing inscribed on a stone, a mother holding a child at lower left, a bush growing out of sand at center right, and the base of a tree in a sand drift at upper right.
place: label: made in
content: Ashkelon, present-day Israel
label: made in
content: Gaza, Palestine
label: place depicted
content: Palestine
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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: 1917-4-950
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 × 17.3 cm (3 3/8 × 6 13/16 in.)