Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape and seascape sketch showing a view of immense icebergs at sunset, witnessed during the artist's expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. In the foreground at left, a dark wall of ice descends vertically to a flatter, craggy section at center, which immediately ascends again to form a kind of rounded pillar at center. Behind it, a tall and massive iceberg extends diagonally into the distance, forming a sort of canal at right, bounded by another craggy ice cliff at far right. Sky above filled with rosy red clouds illuminated by the setting sun, whose red-orange light reflects off of the bergs throughout the scene.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- June–July 1859
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-707
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Oil on tan paperboard
- Dimensions
- 16.3 × 26.4 cm (6 7/16 × 10 3/8 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_1917-4-707
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4de2c4c52-89bb-4128-ad71-20ffd0886fcc
