Floating Iceberg, Battle Harbour, Canada
date: label: Date
content: July 7-16, 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 a large iceberg in St. Lewis Bay near Battle Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Situated prominently at center across an expanse of dark blue water, the white iceberg is brightly illuminated and is roughly shaped like two overlapping rectangles with a craggy and slightly sloping top. Behind and above it, the clear sky is rendered as a gradient from pale orange to bluish-green.
place: label: made in
content: Battle Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
label: place depicted
content: Battle Harbour, 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: 1917-4-289-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 cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: 17.3 × 40.7 cm (6 13/16 × 16 in.)