Drawing, View of the Palisadoes near Kingston, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church

May–September 1865

brush and oil, graphite on paperboard

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Landscape sketch showing expansive view of the Palisadoes near Kingston, Jamaica. In foreground, dark, wooded ridgeline descends from right to left. In middle distance, the narrow tombolo of sand known as the Palisadoes extends into the horizon, with the Kingston harbor at right. Coastline west of Kingston visible in the background at right. Sky and water alike rendered in delicate, hazy tones of orange and green.