Sketch of Horseshoe Falls, Canada
date: label: Date
content: 1856 or 1858
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape sketch showing a loosely rendered view of Horseshoe Falls, viewed from the Canadian bank of Niagara Falls. At center, a tall, billowing column of mist rises into the atmosphere and casts a dark shadow on the churning water below. Behind the mist, the upper edge of Horseshoe Falls stretches horiztonally across the composition, with Terrapin Tower visible at left. The circle of the sun is shown just above the mist at upper center. In the background, the heavily wooded Canadian bank of the Niagara River is hastily rendered.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape and architectural sketch showing, at upper center, the floorplan of a small building with three rooms, and at lower center and oppositely oriented, a portion of Niagara Falls kicking up a billowing plume of mist.
place: label: made in
content: Canada
label: place depicted
content: Canada
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-1059
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Type
content: drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on off-white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 23.3 × 15.9 cm (9 3/16 × 6 1/4 in.)