Moonlit Sky at Sea, Egypt
date: label: Date
content: January 1868
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 a cloudy sky illuminated by the light of the moon, at center, which is reflected off of the ocean waters below.
label: Description
content: Verso: Mixed sketches around Suez, Egypt, showing three scenes of a steam boat, two laden row boats, and the facade of a structure. Along upper margin, a steamer is visible at sea with its smoke billowing across the scene to the left. At center, two rowboats are obliquely shown hauling blocks of concrete for the construction of the breakwater at the Suez Canal. Below, at left, a sketch of a building's facade is visible.
place: label: made in
content: Suez, Egypt
label: place depicted
content: Suez, Egypt
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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: 1917-4-72
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 white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 8.6 × 12.2 cm (3 3/8 × 4 13/16 in.)