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Drawing, Among the Blue Mountains, Jamaica

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated July 1865 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is oil and graphite on paperboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

It has the following markings

Stamped in black ink: verso center, L.457d; verso center, L.457e

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in brown oil, lower right, Jamaica / July 65; in graphite, matte lower margin, Blue Mt. Peak (highest / point in Jamaica), left / mid-distance

Cite this object as

Drawing, Among the Blue Mountains, Jamaica; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; oil and graphite on paperboard; Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-680-a

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