Thunder Clouds, Jamaica
date: label: Date
content: May–September 1865
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Description
content: Landscape and atmosphere sketch of distant, billowing storm clouds above lush jungle terrain in Jamaica. Likely taking place during the afternoon or midday, the clouds are illuminated along their fringe in a luminous silver and constitute a towering mass in the otherwise blue sky. In the lower portion, dense trees extend from the foreground and into the middle distance.
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: 1917-4-407-b
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 on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 18.2 × 29.4 cm (7 3/16 × 11 9/16 in.)