Iceberg Panorama, Canada, Part One
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 sketch showing the first part of a panoramic view of an immense, craggy iceberg near the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Filling the sheet, the iceberg has a sharp, rectangular peak at upper center that descends to a serrated ridge at right that continues off the page. The foremost portion of the berg, visible at center, bulging forms, steep edges, and striations of eroded ice. The ocean's surface is visible along the lower margin.
label: Description
content: Verso: Seascape sketch at upper left showing a single sharp, craggy, and pyramidal iceberg highlighted in white gouache, which as since oxidized. The berg has a subsidiary peak at left.
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: 1917-4-306-b
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; verso: graphite and oxidized white gouache
label: Dimensions
content: 27.6 × 45.6 cm (10 7/8 × 17 15/16 in.)