Foundering Icebergs near Battle Harbour, Canada
date: label: Date
content: July 7 and 9, 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 three distinct icebergs from different perpectives and in different stages of disintegration, near the town of Battle Harbour in St. Lewis Bay, Canada. Along the upper portion, three drawings of a roughly triangular iceberg show the berg from different perspectives, spinning in the water to the right as the sketches proceed from left to right. At center left, four sequential sketches of a calving and disintegrating iceberg are organized into two columns: at upper left, the iceberg prior to calving; at lower left, the process of calving; at upper right, the iceberg and its fragments just moments after calving; and at lower right, the same iceberg sometime later, devoid of its smaller fragments. At lower center and lower right, two sketches of a single, craggy iceberg record its movement after an avalanche or calving event. At lower center, the iceberg's tall, sharp peak is positioned at right and descends to a rugged lower section; at lower right, the same iceberg faces the opposite direction, with its tall, jagged peak at left.
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: 1917-4-297-a
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 green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 26.4 × 45.4 cm (10 3/8 × 17 7/8 in.)