Four Floating Icebergs, Canada
date: label: Date
content: July 4 and 5, 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 four views of icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada--one situated in each quadrant of the composition. At upper left, an iceberg rendered in white gouache has a tall prominence at right and a shorter, craggy section at left; at upper right, a rectangular iceberg with a rough surface is included; at lower left, the precipitous cliff-edge of a berg is shown; and at lower right, an iceberg resembling a bulging, pyramidal 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: 1917-4-273-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: 11.4 × 20.9 cm (4 1/2 × 8 1/4 in.)