Icebergs at Sea near Newfoundland, Canada
date: label: Date
content: July 1, 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 eleven views of icebergs at sea off the northeast coast of Newfoundland island in Canada, organized roughly into three rows. In the top row, two sloped icebergs float close to one another at upper left while two sketches of the same berg are shown at upper right, one completed in white gouache. Three other icebergs are organized in a row below these, the one at far right highlighted in white gouache. Two other rugged are visible at center, while at lower left, two fragmented icebergs face one another, and at lower right, a large, precipitous iceberg with a sheer edge is shown.
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: 1917-4-298
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 and white gouache on light green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.4 × 45.4 cm (10 13/16 × 17 7/8 in.)