Figure Sketches with a Fig Tree, Ottoman Empire (Israel)
date: label: Date
content: February–April 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed studies showing three partial figure studies of Jewish boys and men, with a fig tree. In upper portion, a sketch of a book wedged in a stone crack and the head of a Jewish man viewed from the rear are visible. At center, a Jewish male is shown from behind, adorned in a shtreimel (or fur hat) and draped clothing, with the face and head of a Jewish boy at left, also wearing a shtreimel. Below, and oppositely oriented, a sketch of a leafless fig tree is visible.
place: label: place depicted
content: Palestine
label: made in
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: 1917-4-185
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 20.7 × 12.2 cm (8 1/8 × 4 13/16 in.)