Iceberg, Battle Harbour, Canada

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · July 7-8, 1859

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.