Iceberg Sketches, Canada
date: label: Date
content: July 6 and 16, 1859
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Seascape sketch showing views of nine different icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Three craggy, serrated icebergs are sketched along the upper margin, with another, shaped roughly like a "U", below them at left. At center, a horizontal scene featuring three large, broken bergs and their fragments is included, while at lower left and lower center, two distinct, heavily shaded icebergs are shown.
place: label: made in
content: Newfoundland, Canada
label: made in
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: 1917-4-284-c
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 × 20.5 cm (4 1/2 × 8 1/16 in.)