Houses Covered with Turf, 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: Landscape and architecture sketch showing a view of turf-covered houses and nearby docks, likely witnessed along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. Clustered closely at center, the structures' linear forms intermingle and dance with one another. At left, a long, flat structure is shown built on silts with a doorway and ramp facing us, as an elevated walkway extends away from it to the right. Behind it at center, a smaller structure with a chimney and gabled roof is similarly paired with an elevated dock, which extends to the left. At far right, a tree's foliage--or some other kind of vegetation--is loosely rendered.
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: 1917-4-366-b
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on light brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.5 × 20.5 cm (4 1/2 × 8 1/16 in.)