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Drawing, Wooded Vale with a Large Fern and Distant Mountain Ranges, 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 cream-colored heavy 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

Sheet: 27.5 x 44.5 cm (10 13/16 x 17 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in ink, at center left: Lugt 457c

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite in a grove, at center: yams / fern; again,at lower right: bamboo; and at bottom right: Jamaica July - 1865 -

Cite this object as

Drawing, Wooded Vale with a Large Fern and Distant Mountain Ranges, Jamaica; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); Jamaica; graphite on cream-colored heavy wove paper; Sheet: 27.5 x 44.5 cm (10 13/16 x 17 1/2 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-12-a

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