Four Floating Icebergs, Canada
date: label: Date
content: June-July 1859
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Seascape sketches showing four views of floating icebergs, witnessed off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. One iceberg is situated in each corner of the leaf: at upper left, a sharp, pyramidal iceberg resembling a shark's tooth; at upper right, an amorphous berg with three prominences; at lower left, a sloping iceberg with two rectangular spires; and finally, at lower right, an indistinct iceberg with many undulating forms. The sketches at upper left and lower right are oppositely oriented.
place: label: made in
content: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
label: place depicted
content: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-1196
objectType: label: Type
content: seascapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.5 × 20.1 cm (4 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)