Old Windmill, Jamaica
date: label: Date
content: July 1865
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and architecture sketch of a ruinous windmill in the Jamaican jungle. The conical-cylindrical form of the mill dominates the center of the composition, and hosts abundant vegetation including trees and vines. The rectilinear shapes of the bricks that comprise the structure are highlighted in white gouache. Mixed vegetation surrounds the mill, with one tall, vine-strewn tree visible at left.
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: 1917-4-14
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, brush and white gouache on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 44.1 × 26.7 cm (17 3/8 × 10 1/2 in.)