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1917

  • We acquired this object.

2015

2025

Drawing, Sunbeams above Jamaican Mountains

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, brush and white gouache on tan 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

27.3 × 43.5 cm (10 3/4 × 17 1/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in black ink, lower left: L.457c

It is signed

Signed in graphite, lower right: [FEC monogram]

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, upper margin: blue; upper center: Topaz; center left: warm golden; center right: bluish green / Dusky warm; lower right: Jamaica July /65 [FEC monogram]

Cite this object as

Drawing, Sunbeams above Jamaican Mountains; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); Jamaica; graphite, brush and white gouache on tan wove paper; 27.3 × 43.5 cm (10 3/4 × 17 1/8 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-10-a

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