Camels on a Mountainside with Mixed Sketches, Palestine (Israel)
date: label: Date
content: February 18, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches from the deserts of present-day Israel, showing a crouching camel, a building, camels climbing a mountainside, and two views of a grazing horse. At upper left, a seated camel with a saddle on its back is sketched in left profile. Beside it at upper center, a rectangular stone building is viewed obliquely. At upper and lower right, a horse wearing a saddle decorated with hanging tassels is shown grazing beside a spear planted upright into the sand. At center, a scene of four camels climbing a distant and steep hillside is faintly rendered.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches from the deserts of present-day Israel, made en route to Petra, showing the construction of a tent, the head of a camel, and a flying hawk. At upper right, an aloft hawk with wings spread wide is sketched simply. Beside it, at center right and oriented to the right, a camel's head is sketched in some detail. It opens its mouth wide, bearing its tongue and teeth, as its chained harness hangs from its hairy chin. At left, several of the artist's Bedouin guides raise a tent in the desert sands. The first portion of the tent is risen at center, while guy lines descend from its peak to pegs in the ground. A kneeling figure at left actively hammers a peg into the sand.
place: label: made in
content: Palestine, present-day Israel
label: place depicted
content: Palestine, present-day 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: 1917-4-944
objectType: label: Type
content: animals
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.)