Mountain Ridge with Clouds, 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 of billowing clouds rising above a wooded mountain ridge in Jamaica. The outline of the rugged ridge stretches across the composition, rising at right. Large, puffy clouds rise behind the ridge with other cloud types above and behind.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loosely rendered landscape sketch showing the view overlooking the Blue Mountains and coastline of Jamaica from the mountain hamlet of Bellevue. The outline of a ridge descends from right to left in foreground. In the middle distance, the Kingston harbor and its nearby coastline are visible. Above, hazy clouds are sketchily drawn.
place: label: made in
content: Bellevue, Jamaica
label: place depicted
content: Bellevue, 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: 1917-4-978-b
objectType: 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 × 19.9 cm (4 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)