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Drawing, Mounted Bedouin Guide, Palestine or Syria

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated February 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

Its dimensions are

16.8 × 8.6 cm (6 5/8 × 3 3/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, lower center, L.457c

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper right: 2 - red / 3 - Brown / 4 - Dirty white; in graphite, center: 4 / 3 / 2; in graphite, verso upper right: Women; in graphite, verso center: Woman / black; in graphite, verso right margin: Arab Encampment in distance

Cite this object as

Drawing, Mounted Bedouin Guide, Palestine or Syria; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite; 16.8 × 8.6 cm (6 5/8 × 3 3/8 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-482

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