Icebergs near Belle Isle, Canada
date: label: Date
content: July 15, 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 icebergs near Belle Isle off the coast of Labrador, Canada. A craggy, disintegrating iceberg with a field of broken or collapsed ice stretches across the composition's upper half, with other smaller, fractured bergs beside it at right. At center left, the sheer, vertical edge of another iceberg is visible, while at lower right, the detail of a sloping portion of an iceberg that resembles a slide is included.
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: 1917-4-958-a
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 gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28.7 × 45.6 cm (11 5/16 × 17 15/16 in.)