Niagara Falls from the Base of Prospect Point, New York
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 view of Niagara Falls looking south from the river bank below Prospect Point. In the foreground, nearby treetops are visible beside a steep, covered stairway that once transported visitors from the ferry to observation point above. Beyond the stairs at upper left, the American Falls are visible beside the wooded Goat Island. In the distance at center, the Terrapin Tower stands on the edge of the convex portion of Horseshoe Falls, with the remainder of the immense, curving cascade extending to the right. In the background, the trees on the southern bank of the Niagara River are shown in outline.
label: Description
content: Verso: Rough figure and landscape sketch showing a figure crawling up a fallen tree trunk that rests on another, standing trunk. Both trees exceptionally thin.
place: label: made in
content: New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: USA/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: 1917-4-60
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, white gouache, and oxidized white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 31.1 × 44.2 cm (12 1/4 × 17 3/8 in.)