John Frederick Lewis
1805-1876
A Bedouin Encampment at Gebel Tor in the Sinai Desert
ca. 1842-1843
12 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches (308 x 359 mm)
Graphite, black chalk and watercolor on paper.
2009.392
Purchased on the Sunny Crawford Von Bülow Fund 1978.
Notes
This study likely dates to 1842-43, when Lewis made other studies of the Bedouins at Gebel Tor (the Arabic name for Mount Sinai).
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Signed and inscribed on a separate fragment of paper "Bedouins / Gebel Tor / J.F. Lewis."
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