Clouds Over Hills, Jamaica
date: label: Date
content: August 1865
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of immense, billowing storm clouds over the hilly landscape of Jamaica. Treetops are visible in the immediate foreground and stretch across the lower margin. The middle distance is comprised of brown and gently rolling hilly terrain. In the background at center, the top of a billowing storm cloud is illuminated in a hue of bright, creamy white, while other rain clouds around it (and above the viewer) are dark gray and cast shadows on the landscape.
place: label: place depicted
content: Jamaica
label: made in
content: 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: 1917-4-408-a
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil on off-white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 13.9 × 28.4 cm (5 1/2 × 11 3/16 in.)