Cliffs, Grand Manan Island, Canada
date: label: Date
content: August 1851
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing of immense rocky cliffs along the coast of Grand Manan Island, possibly near Southwest Head or Dark Harbour. Immense boulders and rock formations are strewn around the immediate foreground, including a conical spire at lower center. Precipitous, nearly vertical cliffs rise abruptly just beyond these rocks, and are made up of geometric pillars of basalt. One particularly dramatic formation at center hosts a pair of trees atop its narrow peak. The sheer cliffs extend into the background, with their flat, wooded ridges shown on top.
place: label: made in
content: New Brunswick, Canada
label: place depicted
content: New Brunswick, 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: 1917-4-652
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.3 × 39.1 cm (10 3/4 × 15 3/8 in.)