Five Floating Icebergs, Canada
date: label: Date
content: July 5 and 6, 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 five distinct views of individual icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Two icebergs are included in the upper portion of the composition: at upper left, a nearby iceberg is shown with a sharp spire on top, while at upper right, a distance iceberg a more pyramidal form is visible. Along the long half, three icebergs become increasingly distanced from left to right. At lower center, an iceberg with a distinct semicircular or U-shaped contour is included. Each iceberg is shown atop a flat horizon line, inidcating the water's surface.
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: 1917-4-277-c
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 light brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.5 × 20.5 cm (4 1/2 × 8 1/16 in.)