The Blue Mountains, from Bloxburgh, 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 sketch showing a view in the Blue Mountains from Bloxburgh, Jamaica. In the foreground, a single, leafless tree stands on a grassy hilltop. Beyond it, other heavily wooded hilltops are faintly visible, partially obscured by mist or fog. The center of the composition is negative space, presumably a mass of mist or fog that consumes the view. Along the upper margin at center, a dark and rugged mountain summit emerges from the fog and looms over the landscape. Below and above it, portions of billow clouds and water vapor are highlighted in white gouache.
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: 1917-4-422-b
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and white gouache on light green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.8 × 40 cm (10 15/16 × 15 3/4 in.)