Schooner Riding Waves off Mt. Desert Island, Maine
date: label: Date
content: September 1860
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of a schooner (or double-masted sailboat) on the waters around Mount Desert Island in Maine. The ocean's undulating surf comprises the foreground. In the middle distance at left, a sailboat leans to the left as it glides atop these waves. In the background at right, the coastal trees of a nearby island or shoreline are visible. The flat horizon cuts across the center of the composition.
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: 1917-4-967-a
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 10.8 × 19.3 cm (4 1/4 × 7 5/8 in.)