View from Galloway Hill, 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 of the Blue Mountains in Jamaica from Galloway Hill near Gordon Town. At right, the broad, rugged mountain ridge descends across the composition to the left. Two smaller prominences are visible in middle distance at left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed studies and notes from Jamaica, with architectural details and a calendar. At left, 4 details of tiles and/or carved wood are visible--two corners of panels, an inscribed trefoil arch, and an oblong pane with a lozenge coffer. At upper center, two partial "FEC" monograms are show. Beside these in upper right corner is a calendar showing dates from August to September, 1865. Throughout lower portion and vertically oriented are two long columns of numbers and tick marks, one labeled "got" that adds up to 51, and another, labeled "not," with a sum total of 60.
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: 1917-4-208
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 on gray wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.5 × 20 cm (4 1/2 × 7 7/8 in.)