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Drawing, Landscape Sketch with Figures, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan)

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated February or March 1868 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on white wove paper. 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 × 17.2 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper center: Gold Sandy brown; in graphite, center left: yel / rich / gold / brown / Dirty; in graphite, center: grey in patches / white camels wooley / eyes black spot; in graphite, lower left: white / w / blue; in graphite, lower right: cut out of / Rock / one mile off; in graphite, verso upper left: snow white; in graphite, verso upper center: gold brown; in graphite, verso lower right: White Rock

Cite this object as

Drawing, Landscape Sketch with Figures, Palestine or Syria (Israel or Jordan); Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on white wove paper; 8.6 × 17.2 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-941

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