# Figure Sketches with a Fig Tree, Ottoman Empire (Israel)

- By: Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Louis P. Church
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/22682)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/c77f3861caae7f2f8032bb7e0c88b311.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.