Coastline Cliffs of Great Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
date: label: Date
content: June-July 1859
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing four views of sheer cliffs and craggy mountains along the coast of Great Island (one of the Ramea Islands) in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Four sketches are organized into each quadrant of the leaf: at upper left, a distant view of the curving coastline, with a tall, sharp, and triangular mountain at the far end of the coast; at upper right, a closer view of that sharp mountain that makes visible the diagonal layers of rock strata that comprise it; at lower right, a similarly close view of that mountain, but rotated leftwards toward the shore, such that the slope straightens out to a diagonal line; and finally, at lower left, a frontal view of a rolling coastal mountain is also 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: 1917-4-448
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 × 20.8 cm (4 1/2 × 8 3/16 in.)