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Iceberg, Battle Harbour, Canada
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Iceberg, Battle Harbour, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 7-8, 1859 · Oil and graphite on paperboard

From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Seascape sketch showing a view of a lone iceberg floating in the waters of St. Lewis Bay near the island and town of Battle Harbour in Labrador, Canada. The dark, brownish-gray ocean waters extend from the foreground to the middle distance, where they form a low, flat horizon. At center left, a craggy, serrated iceberg is rendered in a luminescent hue of blue-green. A nearby island or coastline is visible along the horizon at far right. Above, the sun's light struggles to penetrate thick, dark clouds, resulting in a glowing, yellow-orange sky along the upper margin.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own description
Credit lineIceberg, Battle Harbour, Canada. July 7-8, 1859. Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Louis P. Church. CC0.

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