Sunset and Mountains, Jamaica
Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing view of stormy, sunset skies above a lush mountainous landscape in Jamaica. Green prominence in foreground is backdropped by purple mountains in middle distance. Above, tumultuous storm clouds are illuminated yellow, orange, and red by the light of the setting sun. At upper right, green and blue gradation of the sky is visible.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- May–September 1865
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-682-b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 24.3 × 30.3 cm (9 9/16 × 11 15/16 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_1917-4-682-b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4280f4568-4db2-4e08-b8f3-0ae68044359b
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