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Drawing, Bamboo Sketch, Jamaica
This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated May–September 1865 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite on gray-green 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 × 19.6 cm (4 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.)
It has the following markings
Stamped in black ink, verso lower center: L.457d
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: Some places / chocolate tints / and pinkish; lower center: (flashing like silver) / Remember the silvery grey dead ferns / which clotted the hillsides with living ones scattered; lower right: Remember the thorny ferns and the contrast / of the rich green fairy leaves / with the dark Madder brown and russety / dead leaves and stems in tangled masses
Cite this object as
Drawing, Bamboo Sketch, Jamaica; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite on gray-green wove paper; 11.5 × 19.6 cm (4 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-1258
