Iceberg, 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 sketch showing a view of an enormous iceberg with multiple peaks and furrows, witnessed somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. At center, the berg has a kind of craggy valley complete with a ribbed spire that leads upward to a flatter plane with a sharp edge at right. Above, the berg's tall central peak is flanked by rugged and serrated ridges that lead down to other sharp prominences. Ocean surface comprises foreground.
label: Description
content: Verso: Figure sketch a direct, frontal view of an individual's face, seemingly with large, flush cheeks and their hair tucked behind their ears. Likely a portrait of an Inuit individual.
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: 1917-4-306-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 on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.2 × 45.3 cm (10 11/16 × 17 13/16 in.)