Recollection of Roots, Galloway Hill, 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: Botanical sketch of the interwoven roots of a tree that hangs off of a precipice in Galloway Hill, Jamaica. The entwined, spindly forms of the exposed, layered roots form a kind of natural latticework at center of the composition. The base of the tree's trunk is visible at upper margin. Partial sketch of a fern adjacent at right.
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: 1917-4-434-a
objectType: label: Type
content: nature studies
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.5 × 19.8 cm (4 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)