Statue Rock, Grand Manan Island, Canada
date: label: Date
content: September 1851
name: label: Maker
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of a rock formation known to Church as "Statue Rock" and, from this angle, the "Old Maid" (but popularly known as "The Southern Cross" before it collapsed in 1976) along the extremely rugged southwestern coastline of Grand Manan Island in Canada. The ocean's surface comprises the foreground and encounters a rocky shore in the middle distance center right, which extends obliquely to center left. The roughly columnar Statue Rock/Southern Cross/Old Maid is prominently visible. Wide at its base, the formation tapers upward, culminating with a rock whose shape roughly resembles a hunched-over figure. Behind the formation, white clouds along the horizon backdrop the scene. At upper right, the sparsely wooded upper edge of the cliff extends out of view.
place: label: made in
content: New Brunswick, Canada
label: place depicted
content: New Brunswick, 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: 1917-4-398-c
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, brush and white gouache on light brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 32.8 × 45.3 cm (12 15/16 × 17 13/16 in.)