Coastline and Ships, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
date: label: Date
content: 1850–51
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and water vessel sketches showing three sailboats a view down a mountainous and undulating coastline on Mt. Desert Island in Maine. Featuring a large mountain at upper right, the sketch in the upper portion of the composition shows the curving and cliff-strewn coastline of Mt. Desert. In the lower portion, three sketches of sailing ships are included--one viewed from the side, one obliquely, and one viewed from behind.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and water vessel sketches around Mt. Desert Island, Maine, showing, at upper left, a frontal view of a beached rowboat, at upper center, a sideview of a ship, and at center, a view of billowing clouds over wooded and overlapping hilltops, "just after sunset," according to the artist.
place: label: made in
content: Maine, USA
label: place depicted
content: Maine, USA
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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: 1917-4-30
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 on tan wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 27.3 × 25.8 cm (10 3/4 × 10 3/16 in.)