Sunset with Sunbeams, 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 and atmosphere sketch of backlit, billowing clouds at sunset above mountains in Jamaica. At center, a thunderhead rises above a line of puffy clouds, producing crepuscular rays (sunbeams) as it breaks apart the light of the setting sun. Above, two large beams emanate from behind the thunderhead in an otherwise dark sky.
label: Description
content: Verso: Partial atmosphere sketch of clouds brightly illuminated by the light of the setting sun.
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: 1917-4-978-a
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
label: Dimensions
content: 11.5 × 19.9 cm (4 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)