Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape and figure sketch of a Jamaican laborer of African descent who appears to prepare to scale a curving palm tree. From lower center, the palm's trunk curves to the upper right corner, and is rendered with high level of finish. In middle distance at left, the trunk of another tree rises out of frame. The figure lower at right wears tattered shirt and pants with a straw hat and holds a brightly-colored bundle in his left arm.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- May–September 1865
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-743-a
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- nature studies
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on bright green paperboard
- Dimensions
- 30.2 × 22.8 cm (11 7/8 in. × 9 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_1917-4-743-a
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq48d37a93f-6732-48ae-a124-c51fced8cfc0
