High Water at Southern Head, Grand Manan Island, Canada
date: label: Date
content: September 1851
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 sheer, rocky cliffs along the coast of Grand Manan Island, Canada, at Southwest Head. Visible in the lower portion, high tide has risen the ocean's water significantly, nearly submerging all of the rocks around the base of the cliff. Dominating the composition at center, a precipitous cliff is made up of geometic pillars of stone known as basalt, lending a distinct sense of verticality and upward motion to the scene. The cliff has a somewhat sharp top at upper center, before flattening out and fading out of view at upper left.
place: label: made in
content: New Brunswick, Canada
label: place depicted
content: New Brunswick, 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: 1917-4-396-c
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, brush and white gouache and oxidized white gouache on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 29.4 × 45.3 cm (11 9/16 × 17 13/16 in.)