Red Hills, Jamaica
Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing view of succeeding mountain ridges extending to the horizon--likely the Red Hills of Jamaica--rendered in a reddish-brown. Smoke of a fire rises along the slope at right. Before this range, a cultivated valley comprises the middle distance. In the immediate foreground, at left, the upper branches of a nearby tree are visible. Above, a hazy yellow-blue sky hosts several puffy clouds.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- June 1865
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-355-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 20.1 × 29.4 cm (7 15/16 × 11 9/16 in.)
- made in
- Jamaica
- place depicted
- Jamaica
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-355-b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq49b3a1697-6bf2-47a5-923f-9ab76f8380bd
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