Floating Icebergs near St. Lewis Bay, Canada
date: label: Date
content: July 13 and 14, 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 twelve views of icebergs in or around St. Lewis Bay on the coast of Labrador in Canada, organized roughly into four rows. Three icebergs are visible along the upper margin: a craggy one at left, one with a spire at center, and one beside a sailboat at right. Along the second row down, four sketches of likely the same iceberg with a tall, sharp spire are shown--the three images at right clearly show the spire from sightly shifting perspectives. At center left, one large sketch of a craggy, rugged iceberg is shown beside two smaller, looser sketches at right. At lower left, a portion of an iceberg with a pointed tower is visible, while at lower right, a smaller sketch of the same berg at center left is included.
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: 1917-4-297-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: Graphite and white gouache on brown paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.4 × 45.3 cm (10 13/16 × 17 13/16 in.)