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1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, Mountain Ridge with Clouds, Jamaica

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated August 1865 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on gray wove paper; verso: graphite. 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.

Its dimensions are

11.5 × 19.9 cm (4 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper right: Dark; in graphite, center right: purple; in graphite, center: 5 4 / 4 4 / purp / 3 / 2; in graphite, lower left: Jamaica Aug /65; in graphite, lower right: 2 - steel blue / 3 - glowing red / laky - / 4 - yellowish fawn / 5 - Indigo blue sub; in graphite, verso upper left: blue; in graphite, verso center: orange glow / cool blurring grey / lighter; in graphite, verso center right: - sea -; in graphite, verso lower center: Near Bellevue / Capt Kents

Cite this object as

Drawing, Mountain Ridge with Clouds, Jamaica; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on gray wove paper; verso: graphite; 11.5 × 19.9 cm (4 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-978-b

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