In the Blue Mountains, Jamaica
date: label: Date
content: August 1865
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of a steep valley in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. In the foreground at right, a dirt path curves around a rocky berm with low-lying vegetation. One small but prominent tree bends to the right beside the path at center. In the middle distance, the steep, lush mountainsides of the valley's opposite slope descend to the right and overlap one another as they extend into the hazy distance. In the background, taller, rugged peaks loom over the landscape and become faded due to atmospheric perspective. Above, the sun's luminous glow shines down through a thin cloud in an otherwise open sky.
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: 1917-4-419
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on tan wove paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 29.2 × 45.5 cm (11 1/2 × 17 15/16 in.)