Trees and Undergrowth, Jamaica
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
May–September 1865
Classification
nature studies
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Louis P. Church
Accession Number
1917-4-393-b
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Botanical sketch of tree trunks and accompanying undergrowth in the Jamaican jungle. A fern grows out of the bough of the center tree at left. Philodrendron grows at lower left. A bromeliad grows from the bough at upper left. The background loosely defined in dark brownish green.