Sketches of a Caribbean Lily and the Moon, Jamaica

American Frederic Edwin Church • 1865

Sketches of a Caribbean Lily and the Moon, Jamaica, 1865

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Botanical and atmosphere sketches from Jamaica showing, at left, the base of a Caribbean spider-lily and, separately, one of its blossoms with the plant's distinctive thin petals, and at right, a view of the moon glowing through thin cloud cover. Graphite on gray-green wove paper

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