Wild Sugar Cane, Jamaica
date: label: Date
content: August 1865
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing four stalks of wild sugar cane growing in a lush mountain valley in Jamaica. In the foreground at right, a dirt path is briefly visible before it curves out of the frame at right. At center, tall, green stalks of sugar cane grow vertically out of the mountainside to the left of the path. Evenly spaced, their leaves are slender and pointed. Below them, three other stalks bend to the left while a small sapling grows beside them at right. In the middle distance, two lush mountain ridges at left and right converge at center to form a wide "V." In the background, a taller, rounded mountain--rendered in a shade of purplish brown--looms over the landscape. Gray clouds fill the sky above.
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: 1917-4-677
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 and graphite on orange paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 28.7 × 30.3 cm (11 5/16 × 11 15/16 in.)