Icebergs
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 sketch showing a view of a massive, craggy iceberg, partly in shadow with sunlight glinting from the peaks, seen from a distance across a dark brownish body of water with cresting waves off the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. A smaller iceberg is visible in the background at right, while small ship is shown in the distance at left with its sail illuminated in red. Scene takes place during sunrise or sunset.
place: label: made in
content: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
label: place depicted
content: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1917-4-290-b
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 thin paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 10.3 × 28.3 cm (4 1/16 × 11 1/8 in.)