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Drawing, Desert Landscape with Figure Sketches, Palestine (Israel)

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

8.6 × 17 cm (3 3/8 × 6 11/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: camel foot print; in graphite, upper center: sandy brown color; in graphite, lower left: Fore foot / Person foot print; in graphite, lower center: tint of brown / half buried in sand; in graphite, lower right: Child - high / wind; in graphite, verso upper right: snuffy tint; in graphite, verso center right: Silv; in graphite, verso left margin: Girl in [---]; in graphite, verso lower left: Dark / Bright green grey; in graphite, verso lower center: Yell on sand / purple pebbles / white flowers in shoots

Cite this object as

Drawing, Desert Landscape with Figure Sketches, Palestine (Israel); Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on white wove paper; verso: graphite; 8.6 × 17 cm (3 3/8 × 6 11/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-946

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