Two Tents, Palestine (Israel)
date: label: Date
content: March 2, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sketch of two pitched tents on Church's return trip from his expedition to Petra. At left, an oblong, slightly decorated tent is support by two tall poles at its center and numerous others around its circumference. All poles supported by taut ropes tied to stakes in the ground. At right, a similar, but smaller and circular tent is visible, characterized by only one central peak.
place: label: made in
content: Israel
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-903
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.2 × 21.2 cm (4 13/16 × 8 3/8 in.)