Study for "Rainy Season in the Tropics"
date: label: Date
content: 1865–1866
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch and preparatory study for "Rainy Season in the Tropics" showing a precipitous mountain landscape with towering pinnacles at left and colossal alpine mountains in background. Waterfall in the distance drains into a lake in middle distance, which then feeds a roaring cascade in the foreground. Flanking this enormous waterfall at left is a castle or church perched atop a cliff, while, at right, a cluster of palm trees and other foliage stands beside the suggestion of a road or path. A centrally-placed, fully-articulated double rainbow arches over the entire scene.
label: Description
content: Verso: Architecture sketches of elevations and plans for a Mansard-roofed house, organized in boxes and sometimes numbered: shown vertically at bottom is the house standing at a declivity and composed of two wings; shown horizontally in the opposite direction is the front portion of the house with a different distribution of windows; shown at various locations are several designs referring to the shape of the roof and a house plan; and shown at bottom right are two fillets supported by scroll motifs. Likely early brainstorming for Olana.
place: label: place depicted
content: South America
label: made in
content: USA
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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: 1917-4-771
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white notepad paper ruled in blue ink
label: Dimensions
content: 13.4 × 20.6 cm (5 1/4 × 8 1/8 in.)