Wild Sugar Cane, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · August 1865

Landscape sketch showing four stalks of wild sugar cane growing in a lush mountain valley in Jamaica. In the foreground at right, a dirt path is briefly visible before it curves out of the frame at right. At center, tall, green stalks of sugar cane grow vertically out of the mountainside to the left of the path. Evenly spaced, their leaves are slender and pointed. Below them, three other stalks bend to the left while a small sapling grows beside them at right. In the middle distance, two lush mountain ridges at left and right converge at center to form a wide "V." In the background, a taller, rounded mountain--rendered in a shade of purplish brown--looms over the landscape. Gray clouds fill the sky above.