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Figure Sketches with a Fig Tree, Ottoman Empire (Israel)
Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
February–April 1868
- Medium
- Graphite on white wove paper
- Classification
- Costume accessories
- Dimensions
- 20.7 × 12.2 cm (8 1/8 × 4 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- Palestine
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
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About this work
Mixed studies showing three partial figure studies of Jewish boys and men, with a fig tree. In upper portion, a sketch of a book wedged in a stone crack and the head of a Jewish man viewed from the rear are visible. At center, a Jewish male is shown from behind, adorned in a shtreimel (or fur hat) and draped clothing, with the face and head of a Jewish boy at left, also wearing a shtreimel. Below, and oppositely oriented, a sketch of a leafless fig tree is visible.
