Hilltop at Sunset, 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 atmosphere sketch showing a view of the sun's luminous glow over the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. A nearby treetop is visible in the immediate foreground at lower right, while a round and heavily wooded hilltop is shown just beyond it at lower center. Succeeding mountain ridges overlap one another as they recede toward the background, growing more and more faint due to atmospheric/aerial perspective. Above, the orb of the sun is faintly visible through a thick veil of clouds, which are brightly illuminated in a hue of creamy white while other gray clouds hang at upper left. A patch of blue sky is visible at upper right.
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: 1917-4-352-a
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil paint and graphite on off-white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 28.1 × 30.1 cm (11 1/16 × 11 7/8 in.)