Sunset Sketch, Jamaica
date: label: Date
content: May–September 1865
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of a bright sunset over the mountains of Jamaica. In foreground, a steep slope and prominence at left give way to taller mountains and ridges in the middle distance and beyond. Above, the sky hosts a mix of clouds as the sun sets. Along lower margin, oriented in reverse, another sketch of a twilight sky is visible.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches showing a view of a vibrant sunset over a loosely-defined landscape at upper left, a wooded and shaded hillside at lower left, and two seated figures with their backs turned--one adult wearing a hat and one small child--visible bottom right.
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: 1917-4-1267
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 on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 18.6 × 27.1 cm (7 5/16 × 10 11/16 in.)