Sketch of an Iceberg
date: label: Date
content: June 1874
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Seascape sketch showing a view of a wide, craggy iceberg--likely sketched from the imagination or recalled from the artist's 1859 trip to the berg-strewn waters off Newfoundland and Labrador. Characterized by its sharp, fragmented forms resembling broken porcelain, the iceberg has a large prominence at center right and a rectangular pinnacle at its left edge. Face of the berg entirely shaded.
label: Description
content: Verso: Atmosphere sketch showing a view billowing clouds over the Hudson River Valley, likely at sunset, viewed from the artist's estate near Hudson, New York. Located at upper center, the sketch shows an immense, billowing cloud surrounded by dark and light tones, as well as other puffy and wispy clouds.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, 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: 1917-4-1102
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 light blue wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.1 × 21.7 cm (4 3/4 × 8 9/16 in.)