Thatch Palm, Jamaica

American Frederic Edwin Church • 1865

Thatch Palm, Jamaica, 1865

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Botanical sketch of a thatch palm in the dense Jamaican jungle, rendered with a high level of finish. Trees and other foliage backdrop the palm while, in the distance, the twilight sky glows in warm hues of orange, green, and yellow. Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard