Icebergs of Twillingate, Canada
date: label: Date
content: July 4, 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 three views of an iceberg near Twillingate in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, from different angles and in various stages of disintegration. One view comprises the upper half of the composition and shows a large iceberg characterized by the bulging, cubic mass on its left side, and the lower, craggy spit of ice at right. Dark ocean waters comprise the foreground and grow lighter, into a shade of aquamarine, around the iceberg's shallows. A hazy, possibly overcast sky above. At lower left, the same iceberg floats on dark water in front of a rugged, mountainous coastline. While, at lower right, the berg, now at a greater distance, is loosely rendered beneath an overcast sky.
place: label: place depicted
content: Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
label: made in
content: Twillingate, 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: 1917-4-294-a
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 tan paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 30.6 × 45.9 cm (12 1/16 × 18 1/16 in.)