Aurora Sketch, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
date: label: Date
content: September 1860
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Atmosphere and landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of the aurora borealis, likely viewed from Bar Harbor, Maine, over Frenchman Bay off the coast of Mt. Desert Island. The foreground and middle distance are comprised of hasty striations that appear to represent nearby terrain and, possibly, the surface of a body of water. Above, vertical lines organized around arches represent the bright beams of geomagnetic energy that make up the aurora borealis.
place: label: made in
content: Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
label: place depicted
content: Maine, USA
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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: 1917-4-1136-a
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.9 × 18.6 cm (4 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)