Whale Cove, Grand Manan Island, Canada
date: label: Date
content: September 1851
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a view of Whale Cove on Grand Manan Island in Canada. In the foreground, dense groups of trees are shown from an elevated perspective. Beyond them, two tidal or vernal pools are highlighted in white gouache as they reflect the sun's light. The partly comprise a marshy zone just behind the cove's beach, which is strewn with driftwood. The beach curves into the middle distance at left, where a group of three buildings are situated on the point of the cove's curve at far left. The terrain beyond them, and its accompanying coastal cliff, slowly rises in elevation as it hosts multiple other buildings and farmland. In the background at center, two distant capes with immense vertical cliffs define the rugged coastline. Floating in the water at right are two sailboats--one anchored in the harbor in the middle distance, and another sailing along the horizon in the background.
label: Description
content: Verso: Multiple sketches of a student or Argand lamp. At lower left, one complete sketch of the lamp is visible, beside a detail at right. At upper left, two loosely-rendered details of the lamps mechanical parts are also included.
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: 1917-4-43
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, white gouache, and oxidized white gouache on light brown wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 33.7 × 45.2 cm (13 1/4 × 17 13/16 in.)