Storm in the Mountains, Jamaica
Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape and atmosphere sketch of a rainstorm over the mountains of Jamaica. Dark clouds pour rain in two distinct columns--at center and right--over a rugged brown topography. Storm clouds shade most of landscape, which features a large mountainside at right that descends toward a small vale at center. Rugged mountain ridges visible at left extend into the dark background.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- July 1865
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-1330
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 11.4 × 22.7 cm (4 1/2 × 8 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_1917-4-1330
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq45811f5c1-1804-4f32-99e0-ebfbdb00b6f5
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