Iceberg, Atlantic Ocean

This sketch documents an iceberg encounter during a transatlantic crossing, rendered in ink with careful cross-hatching to suggest the berg's mass and the surrounding sea. The artist captured three distinct peaks of glacial ice against a calm horizon, their white faces contrasting sharply with shadowed crevasses. The horizontal line-work of the water establishes scale and movement. Such maritime studies from the nineteenth century served both documentary and aesthetic purposes—recording actual phenomena while demonstrating the artist's observational skill. The notation identifies the vessel and date, typical practice for travel sketches that would inform later finished works or simply preserve firsthand experience of distant geography.