Moonlight Bamboo and Figure Sketches, Kingston, Jamaica
date: label: Date
content: July 1865
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches around Kingston, Jamaica, showing a view of bamboo trees by moonlight and several partial and complete figure studies. At left, the moon is visible above a shrouded stand of bamboo trees. At right, twenty-five sketches of the heads and bodies of Jamaican men, women, and children are visible. Many are adorned in headwear and/or draped clothing.
place: label: made in
content: Kingston, Jamaica
label: place depicted
content: Kingston, Jamaica
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-684
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.5 × 19.8 cm (4 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)