Sketches in the Blue Mountains, 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: Botanical and landscape sketches showing views around the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. At upper left, the bough of a tree with a blossom which is shown again in a greater scale is visible. The boughs of a tree, one of them with leaves on the top, are shown at center left. Miscellaneous sketches are visible, including a hummingbird in front of an outlined mountain at upper center, mountains at center, a leaf plant at top right, a stake fence and a bush, at center right. Near the lower margin, a distant view over mountains with a winding road on a ridge in the foreground, and three trees on a mountain top in the middle distance.
place: label: made in
content: Jamaica
label: place depicted
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: 1917-4-13
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, brush and white gouache on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.3 × 22.2 cm (10 3/4 × 8 3/4 in.)