Storm Approaching over Mountaintops, 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: Two distinct landscape and atmosphere sketches of mountains and storm clouds in Jamaica. Top portion consists of a landscape sketch of a sloping mountain ridge at left and lush mountain peak in middle distance at right, as dark storm clouds approaches from right. Gray clouds visible along the upper margin. Lower portion consists of a landscape and atmosphere sketch of perhaps the same scene after the arrival of the storm. View is blocked by think, dark gray storm clouds, although in the lower right foreground, nearby greenery from trees and other foliage remains visible. Break in clouds in upper right portion of drawing reveals mountaintop.
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: 1917-4-769
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 28.5 × 30.5 cm (11 1/4 in. × 12 in.)