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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 July 1865 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on grey wove paper. 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 has the following markings

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

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, center: 3 3 / 2 2 2 / greenish hazy grey; in graphite, center right: 4 / glow / grey; in graphite, lower center: Sky streaked with / bluish whitish brownish / and faint orange streaks / and lines with mottled / under cirri; in graphite, lower right: 2 - purple orange glow / 3 - Edges orange / 4 - rich luminous / July /65 Jamaica

Cite this object as

Drawing, Mountain Ridge with Clouds, Jamaica; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on grey wove paper; 11.5 × 19.9 cm (4 1/2 × 7 13/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-980-b

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