The Coast at Mt. Desert Island, Maine
date: label: Date
content: 1850–1851
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of the rugged coastline of Maine at Mt. Desert Island, likely near Schooner Head. The immediate foreground is rendered only minimally in graphite and includes one large rock and a portion of a rockface. Rendered in great detail in oil paint, the middle distance is composed of large, rough boulders and rocky outrcoppings along the shoreline, characterized by their planar, cubic forms and dark fissures. The rock has a distinctly lateritious (brick-colored) tint, similar to the ground that comprises the lower half of the composition. The shoreline itself curves leftward into the background, where a short, round hill defines the horizon. Above, one puffy cloud hangs at upper right in the sky, which has a warm tone due to the ground color.
place: label: made in
content: 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: 1917-4-645
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite over red ground on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: 30.6 × 40.6 cm (12 1/16 × 16 in.)