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Drawing, Mixed Sketches around Jaffa, Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated possibly 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 has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, verso lower left, L.457c

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, lower right: cieling of Hotel at Jaffa; in graphite, verso upper right: Jebel Sunim; in graphite, verso lower right: Remember the rich green / edges of the terraces

Cite this object as

Drawing, Mixed Sketches around Jaffa, Palestine (Tel Aviv, 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; 1917-4-1287

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