Palm Tree Crowns, Jamaica

American Frederic Edwin Church • 1865

Palm Tree Crowns, Jamaica, 1865

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Three stacked botanical sketches of the crowns of Jamaican palm trees, which radiate fronds in every direction. The uppermost grows scant fronds, with many dead ones hanging below, while the lower two trees are more fully formed. Graphite on gray wove paper

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