View of the Palisadoes and Kingston Harbor from Bellevue, Jamaica
Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape study showing a view of the Palisadoes and Kingston Harbor from the mountain hamlet of Bellevue, Jamaica. Treetop visible in foreground at right. In middle distance, mountain ridges at right and left converge in a steep gully at center left. Long Hill is visible behind these ridges. Beyond, the long and narrow form of the sandy tombolo called the Palisadoes extends into the Kingston Harbor at center and center right. In the background, the Jamaican coastline and sky above are visible.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- July 1865
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-392-c
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Graphite and white gouache on grey-green wove paper
- Dimensions
- 27.4 × 44.2 cm (10 13/16 × 17 3/8 in.)
- 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_1917-4-392-c
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq42a0320a3-6796-4a68-9174-d17bbc79b087
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