Iceberg, Battle Harbour, Canada
date: label: Date
content: July 7-8, 1859
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Description
content: Seascape sketch showing a view of a lone iceberg floating in the waters of St. Lewis Bay near the island and town of Battle Harbour in Labrador, Canada. The dark, brownish-gray ocean waters extend from the foreground to the middle distance, where they form a low, flat horizon. At center left, a craggy, serrated iceberg is rendered in a luminescent hue of blue-green. A nearby island or coastline is visible along the horizon at far right. Above, the sun's light struggles to penetrate thick, dark clouds, resulting in a glowing, yellow-orange sky along the upper margin.
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: 1917-4-296-c
objectType: label: Type
content: seascapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 13.5 × 35 cm (5 5/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Mat: 35.6 × 45.7 cm (14 × 18 in.)