Iceberg Sketches, 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 sketches showing seven views and details of icebergs floating off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, roughly organized into two vertical rows. At upper left, the jagged, cragged top of an iceberg is faintly visible. Below it are two icebergs: the uppermost one highlighted in white gouache, while the lower one is roughly cubic in shape with a tall pillar beside it at right. At upper right, two details of irregularly frozen ice are included. Below it, three views of a single iceberg are shown. It appears to turn leftward as the artist shifted perspective by sailing around it to the right.
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: 1917-4-744-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: Graphite and white gouache on brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.4 × 45.4 cm (10 13/16 × 17 7/8 in.)