Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing view of the setting sun over mountains in Jamaica, with another sketch of a tree. Loosely rendered ridges and hills comprise the foreground and middle distance. The descending sun is framed by several clouds as it approaches the horizon, sending beams of light across the landscape and sky alike. At lower center, a small sketch of a tree is included.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- July 1865
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Graphite on gray-green wove paper
- Dimensions
- 26.8 × 27.2 cm (10 9/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
