Moonlit Coast, Mt. Desert Island
date: label: Date
content: possibly September 1860
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 the full moon illuminating a cloudy night sky above Frenchman's Bay off the coast of Bar Harbor on Mt. Desert Island, Maine. In the foreground, dark and shrouded terrain descends slightly to the left as it extends into the middle distance, where the bay brightly reflects the moon's silver light. In the background at left, the tapering point of Schoodic Peninsula is visible at left. Above, bands of puffy clouds luminously glow as they are backlit by the full moon.
place: label: made in
content: Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
label: place depicted
content: Maine, USA
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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: 1917-4-1370
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 on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 25.1 × 32 cm (9 7/8 × 12 5/8 in.)