Wadsworth Atheneum 600 Main Street Hartford Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1905.21
Date:
1867
Notes:
Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.
"Frederic Edwin Church," Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, 1966.
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 206-107.
"The Journey of Frederic Edwin Church through Colombia and Ecuador," Bogotá, D.C., Colombia: Villegas Asociados S.A. in association with Universidad de los Andes and Thomas Greg & Sons, 2008, pg. 177.
Fern Hunting among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica," Hudson, NY: Olana Partnership and Cornell University Press, 2010, pg. 15.
Image on file.
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, plate 28.
Fern Hunting among These Picturesque Mountains: Frederic Edwin Church in Jamaica," Hudson, NY: Olana Partnership and Cornell University Press, 2010, pg. 15.
"The Journey of Frederic Edwin Church through Colombia and Ecuador," Bogotá, D.C., Colombia: Villegas Asociados S.A. in association with Universidad de los Andes and Thomas Greg & Sons, 2008, pg. 188.
(Lower left:) F. E. Church / 1867 signed
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Summary:
View looking down over a steamy tropical landscape just after a storm has passed. On the horizon to the left, a rising sun is just visible from behind a storm cloud. A small monastery overlooks a river that runs through the center of the landscape.
