Sketches from Killick Island, Canada
date: label: Date
content: July 8, 1859
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Mixed sketches from Killick Island in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, showing views of a seated polar dog in left profile and the muzzle of another at upper left; two sailboats, one in right profile and the other viewed from the stern, and a figure paddling a rowboat at upper right; at lower right, the rigged masts of a ship are visible above and behind a large rock, which obscures the ship's hull; and finally, at lower left, a four-pronged wooden anchor for a net that loosely resembles two criss-crossing pickaxes is included.
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: 1917-4-362
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on light brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.5 × 21 cm (4 1/2 × 8 1/4 in.)