Five Floating Icebergs, Canada
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Seascape sketch showing five distinct views of individual icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Two icebergs are included in the upper portion of the composition: at upper left, a nearby iceberg is shown with a sharp spire on top, while at upper right, a distance iceberg a more pyramidal form is visible. Along the long half, three icebergs become increasingly distanced from left to right. At lower center, an iceberg with a distinct semicircular or U-shaped contour is included. Each iceberg is shown atop a flat horizon line, inidcating the water's surface.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- July 5 and 6, 1859
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-277-c
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- seascapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Graphite and white gouache on light brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 11.5 × 20.5 cm (4 1/2 × 8 1/16 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
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-277-c
