Ships in the North, 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 views of ships in the waters off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The composition is divided into two scenes--one at lower right and another comprising the upper portion of the leaf. In the upper half, a large steamship is viewed in left profile as its smoke stack spews white steam, and its sails are raised. A smaller, green ship two masts is situated beside it at left and is viewed obliquely from the rear. In the foreground at center, a rowboat with two figures is shown in right profile. In the background, a distant steamship appears as a dot on the horizon while its smoke plume wafts and disseminates in the atmosphere above it. Above, blue sky is somewhat visible through hazy clouds. The second view in the lower right corner possibly shows that same, distant steamship, whose smoke plume now drifts dramatically to the left. The sea and sky alike are rendered in tones of brownish-gray.
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: 1917-4-390
objectType: label: Type
content: seascapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and oil, graphite on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 23.2 × 32.7 cm (9 1/8 × 12 7/8 in.)