Bit of Stairway at Niagara Falls, New York
date: label: Date
content: July 8, 1856
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 portion of a staircase at Niagara Falls, New York. Possibly leading to the Cave of the Winds, the stairway is precariously carved out of the cliffside. In the foreground, nearby vegetation is visible at lower center while at path at left leads to a handrail at the base of the stairway at center left. The stairs themselves curve to left around the cliff and out of view, as the cliffside overhangs this area at upper center. In the middle distance at lower right, the wide Niagara River is visible, as well as the steep and heavily wooded opposite bank.
place: label: place depicted
content: New York, USA
label: made in
content: New York, USA
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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: 1917-4-34-b
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 light green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 38.3 × 30.4 cm (15 1/16 × 11 15/16 in.)