Floating Icebergs with Coastal View, Canada
date: label: Date
content: July 2, 1859
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and seascape sketches showing four views of icebergs and a coastline near Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. At upper left, a distant view of a rugged coastline is visible; at upper right, two sloping and craggy icebergs are shown on the ocean surface and separated by some distance, at lower right, an undulating iceberg resembling a dragon's head (nose left, ear right) is included; and at lower left, a massive iceberg that, as the artist says, bears a "strange resemblance to a house," with it's pointed, gable-like formation, is also shown. The iceberg at lower right is enframed and separated from the others by two lines.
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: 1917-4-273-a
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 light brown paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.5 × 21 cm (4 1/2 × 8 1/4 in.)