Palm Tree, Jamaica
date: label: Date
content: July 1865
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Description
content: Landscape and botanical sketch of a palm tree in the lush mountains of Jamaica. Dominating the composition at center, the tree has a relatively thick, scaly trunk and a roughly spherical canopy of fronds that emanate in all directions. The lower fronds are dead and wilted while the trunk appears covered in a fibrous hair or fuzz. Several plants grow around the base of the tree in the foreground, including red and white flowers. In the background, a rolling and densely wooded hillside descends to the right. Above at upper right, dense, rosy, and cream colored clouds break apart, revealing a deep, rich blue sky.
place: label: made in
content: Jamaica
label: place depicted
content: Jamaica
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1917-4-674-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: Oil and graphite on off-white paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 30.3 × 32.2 cm (11 15/16 × 12 11/16 in.)