Coastal Views, Maine or Canada
date: label: Date
content: 1850–55
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches showing views around the coast of Mt. Desert Island in Maine, or Grand Manan Island in New Brunswick, Canada. Along the upper margin, fourteen sailboats are sketches from various angles and at various distances. Some appear to be grouped together. At upper left, a small wooden cabin with a shingle roof with scaffolidng nearby, upon which clothing or other linens dry. At upper center, a rocky cliff with large boulders is shown along the edge of a body of water. At lower left, a dock made up of horizontal logs is visible, with a faint sailboat just beyond it, while at lower right, a sailboat is viewed in front of a rolling, wooded coastline with white, billowing clouds above it.
place: label: possibly made in
content: Maine, USA
label: place possibly depicted
content: Maine, USA
label: place possibly depicted
content: New Brunswick, Canada
label: possibly made in
content: New Brunswick, 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: 1917-4-1286
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 and white gouache on gray wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28.7 × 40.7 cm (11 5/16 × 16 in.)