Sketches of a Caribbean Lily and the Moon, Jamaica
date: label: Date
content: May–September 1865
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Botanical and atmosphere sketches from Jamaica showing, at left, the base of a Caribbean spider-lily and, separately, one of its blossoms with the plant's distinctive thin petals, and at right, a view of the moon glowing through thin cloud cover.
place: label: place depicted
content: Jamaica
label: made in
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: 1917-4-1259
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.5 × 19.7 cm (4 1/2 × 7 3/4 in.)