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Drawing, Landscape from Jamaica

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated June 1865 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is oil on laminated 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

30.4 x 46 cm (11 15/16 x 18 1/8 in.)

It has the following markings

Cooper Union mark (Lugt 357c) on center verso

It is inscribed

Recto: lower right corner in oil paint:"Jamaica/June ?6" (the ?=an S shape or a lower case f without crossbar) Verso: in graphite shetches of outline of a mountain range and concentric circles (two versions:at top as described, below mountain range with centered circles that widen as the radiate out and up

Cite this object as

Drawing, Landscape from Jamaica; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; oil on laminated paper; 30.4 x 46 cm (11 15/16 x 18 1/8 in.) ; Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-351-b

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