Iceberg, Atlantic Ocean

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg's pencil study documents a massive iceberg encountered at sea, rendered with precise cross-hatching and linear perspective. The composition emphasizes scale through the contrast between the towering ice formation and the scattered debris field below. Kellogg, a prolific American artist known for landscape and maritime subjects, here captures the geological phenomenon with scientific attention to geological stratification and erosional patterns. The inscription records specific coordinates and observations—typical of 19th-century expeditionary documentation that blended artistic practice with natural history inquiry. Such sketches served dual purposes: aesthetic study and empirical record of North Atlantic geography.