Object Details
- Description
- Landscape sketch showing a view of the rocky, craggy coastline of Grand Manan Island in Canada. The immediate foreground is comprised of rippling ocean surf that extends into the middle distance, where a tall, rocky promontory rises at right, surrounded by numerous geometric basalt columns. These forms descend toward the center, where waves crash against semi-submerged rocks. The sky above is clear and imbued with a warm tone, due to the brick-colored ground used by the artist.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Date
- 1851 or 1852
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- Medium
- Oil and graphite on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 30.7 × 40.5 cm (12 1/16 × 15 15/16 in.)
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
