Iceberg, Battle Harbour, Canada
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826â1900
July 7-8, 1859
Medium
seascapes
Classification
seascapes
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Louis P. Church
Accession Number
1917-4-296-c
About this artwork
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-grey 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 c...