Drawing, View at Sea near Jamaica

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated April 29, 1865 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on grey 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 × 19.8 cm (4 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, verso lower left, L.457d

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: delicate blue / Dark; in graphite, upper center: 4 4; in graphite, center left: cirri / blue / cirri / [...] brown gold / 3 / 2 / 2 / 2; in graphite, center: 3 3 / 2 / 3; in graphite, lower left: sea - / quicksilver color; in graphite, lower right: 2 - red blackish purple / 3 - mottled yellow luminous / 4 dark purple over golden cirri / Near Jamaica April 29th /65; in graphite, verso center: 3 / green 3 2 / 3 3 / green 4 / 4 3 / 3 / 2 / 2; in graphite, verso lower center: Flower of Wild Plantain; in graphite, verso lower right: 2 - lake edge / 3 - greenish / 4 - orange / Jamaica July /65

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