Icebergs off Cape St. John, Canada
date: label: Date
content: June–July 1859
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Seascape and landscape sketches showing three views of icebergs off the coast of Cape St. John on the island of Newfoundland in Canada. Along the upper margin, three icebergs float on dark water in front of the mountainous, brownish-purple coastline of Cape St. John and below a warm twilight sky. Stretching across the composition at center, a loose oil sketch shows the silhouette of a craggy iceberg along the horizon below a fiery red twilight sky, and viewed across dark blue ocean waters. At lower right, a smaller sketch shows a roughly pyramidal iceberg floating on dark waters in front of a warm, peachy sky.
place: label: made in
content: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
label: place depicted
content: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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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: 1917-4-714-a
objectType: label: Type
content: seascapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 20.4 × 30.3 cm (8 1/16 × 11 15/16 in.)