Sketches of Camels and Riders, 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 sketches showing three views of camels and riders in the deserts of present-day Israel, en route to Petra. At lower right, a Bedouin rider is sketched from behind as he holds a long rifle over his lap. At lower left, a detail of his ankle and foot are included. At upper center and oriented to the left, a camel is sketched obliquely from the rear in some detail. It wears a laden saddle.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing views of rugged mountain ridges in the deserts of present-day Israel, en route to Petra. At center and upper center, two views of rocky and craggy mountains are sketched in some detail. At lower left and right and oriented to the right, two other sketches of rugged mountain ridges are included, separated by loose dividing lines.
place: label: made in
content: Palestine/Israel
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-524
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 16.8 × 8.6 cm (6 5/8 × 3 3/8 in.)