"Old Soaker" off Great Head, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
date: label: Date
content: July–September 1850
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and seascape sketch showing a view of the small island known as "Old Soaker" from the coast of Maine's Mt. Desert Island at Great Head. In foreground, waves break against the rocky shoreline and create white foam. Red, brick colored ground visible in unfinished lower right corner and lower margin. Old Soaker visible in the middle distance at left across rippling water that becomes calm near the horizon. A grayish, blue-green sky makes up the top portion 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: 1917-4-798-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: Brush and oil, graphite on cardboard
label: Dimensions
content: 30.7 × 40.8 cm (12 1/16 × 16 1/16 in.)