Aurora over Mt. Desert Island, Maine
date: label: Date
content: September 1860
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and atmosphere sketch showing a view of the aurora borealis over Frenchman Bay and Bald Porcupine Island off the coast of Mt. Desert Island, Maine, near the city of Bar Harbor. In the foreground at right, the nearby terrain is loosely sketched. In the middle distance, a sailboat floats on the waters of the bay in front of a dark, hilly island known as Bald Porcupine Island. Above, bands of clouds partially cover the sky, while beyond them, arching beams of geomagnetic energy--rendered as hasty striations--illuminate the heavens above.
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: 1917-4-315-b
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: 10.9 × 18.4 cm (4 5/16 × 7 1/4 in.)