Seascape, Bloxburgh, 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 sketch showing a view of the ocean and coastline near the hamlet of Bloxburgh, Jamaica. A portion of a ridge near the shore is visible in foreground at right. Beyond, the ocean water extends to a distant and high horizon. Above, brightly-lit and billowing clouds cast a reflection across the water, along the composition's central axis. Clouds and water are highlighted in white gouache.
label: Description
content: Verso: Partial landscape sketch showing the outlines of two converging mountain ridges, and a view of the ocean between them.
place: label: made in
content: Bloxburgh, Jamaica
label: place depicted
content: Bloxburgh, 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: 1917-4-429
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite and white gouache on gray wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 11.5 × 19.6 cm (4 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.)