Great Head from Sand Beach, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
date: label: Date
content: probably 1850
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 Great Head from Sand Beach on Mount Desert Island in Maine. In the immediate foreground, nearby rocks are rendered only in graphite, revealing the brick-colored grounding, while waves crash on the sandy beach just beyond them. The dark greenish-blue waters of Newport Cove extend over the middle distance until they encounter the sheer, rocky cliffs on the western side of Great Head that rise abruptly at left and center. The cape's wooded hills rise over these red-toned cliff, which taper down to a rocky point at center right. An open and warmly-hued sky reigns above.
place: label: made in
content: Maine, USA
label: place depicted
content: Maine, USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1917-4-796-b
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 on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 20.3 × 35.5 cm (8 × 14 in.)