View from Flamstead, Jamaica
date: label: Date
content: June 1865
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Unfinished landscape sketch showing the view from Flamstead, the estate of Jamaica's governor at the time, Edward John Eyre. The outlines of mountain ridges stretch across the composition. Clouds visible upper center.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches showing views of a tall palm tree and multiple figures. At center, a palm tree is shown in some detail, with orange blossoms visible at its crown. Detail of this blossom included at lower right. At left, upper right, and upper margin, several figures sketches are visible, including a child, a half figure, and a walking man seen from behind. A sketchily rendered group of figures shown at upper margin.
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: 1917-4-19
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and white gouache on gray paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.5 × 19.6 cm (4 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.)