The American Falls, Niagara River, New York
Object Details
- Artist
- Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Landscape sketch looking southwest down the American Falls of the Niagara River, from a vantage known as Prospect Point. The zig-zagging edge of the falls curves from the foreground to the middle distance at left as sheets of water cascade over it. At center, Goat Island and its wooded contour are visible, while beyond it at right, the Terrapin Tower and a portion of Horseshoe Falls are included.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louis P. Church
- 1856 or 1858
- Accession Number
- 1917-4-147-a
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- landscapes
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Graphite on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 11.8 × 19.8 cm (4 5/8 × 7 13/16 in.)
- made in
- New York, USA
- place depicted
- New York, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1917-4-147-a
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4caaf31cd-6a49-491a-9373-54d700e10113
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