Icebergs at Sea, Canada
date: label: Date
content: June-July 1859
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Description
content: Seascape sketches including one large-scale and two small-scale views of icebergs at sea off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Dominating the composition at upper center, the largest sketch shows a massive, mostly rectangular iceberg with a vein of green ice at left. It floats on dark blue ocean waters below a grayish-blue overcast sky. At lower left, another iceberg is shown floating on dark waters--this one featuring a prominent, sharp peak at right descending to a flatter portion at left. At lower right, a smaller iceberg, or outcropping of ice, is visible, shaped in rounded forms like an accumulation of bubbles. The ocean water turns green around its shallow shores. The light brown grown color is visible between each sketch.
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: 1917-4-294-b
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 paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 30.6 × 51 cm (12 1/16 × 20 1/16 in.)