Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Seascape sketch showing a view of a bluish-green pyramidal iceberg against a fiery sunset sky off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Situated in the middle distance at center across an expanse of dark water that comprises the foreground, the iceberg is defined by a tall cone flanked by two shorter prominences at left and right. In the background, the sky glows a luminous hue of orange-pink at sunset.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- June–July 1859
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-731
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- seascapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on paperboard
- Dimensions
- 11.7 × 29.8 cm (4 5/8 × 11 3/4 in.)
- made in
- Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- place depicted
- Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-731
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4339978e0-1f01-4907-9e69-4092e067a42d
