View on Southwest Head, Grand Manan Island, Canada
date: label: Date
content: August 1851
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of rocky cliffs and the rugged coastline of Southwest Head on Grand Manan Island in Canada. In the foreground and middle distance, ocean water laps against a rocky shore that ascends, at left, to sheer cliffs and outcroppings made up of geometric pillars of rock known as basalt. Their flat planes and rectangular tops lend a sense of verticality to the composition's foreground. At far left, the tallest cliff has a wooded top and extends out of view. A sailboat floats near the rugged shoreline in the middle distance at right. Behind it, bright and wispy clouds inhabit a hazy sky above a flat ocean horizon.
place: label: place depicted
content: New Brunswick, Canada
label: made in
content: New Brunswick, 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: 1917-4-24
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, white gouache, and oxidized white gouache on light brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.9 × 44.7 cm (12 9/16 × 17 5/8 in.)