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Drawing, Coconut Palm, 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 graphite on green-gray 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.

One model depicts the inside of the flower. The green bottom leads to a white rounded bead shaped bumps. Light brown nodules, divided in four, repeat around the stick. Above are spiny thorns coming out of bumps leading to a grayish slender stick with a rounded top The second model object on the left his a green folded standing leaf with a purple slender peaking up from the middle. They are glued to a vertical rod mounted on a stepped base with affixed paper label

Arum Maculatum, 1875–1898
wood, papier-mâché, cardboard, plaster, reed pith, metal, string, feathers,....
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
22.2018.7

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 27.3 x 21.4 cm (10 3/4 x 8 7/16 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped in ink, at center: Lugt 457c

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, at lower left: Cocoa Nut [sic] Palm / Jamaica June /65; and again, at lower right: Portion of / root.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Coconut Palm, Jamaica; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); Jamaica; graphite on green-gray paper; Sheet: 27.3 x 21.4 cm (10 3/4 x 8 7/16 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-6-a

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Bhbk/
Accession Number 1917-4-6-a
Object ID 18199839