Niagara Falls from the American Side, New York
date: label: Date
content: 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 view of Niagara Falls from the American side, viewed from midway up the bank. In the foreground at center left, the nearby vertical cliffs--partially covered in trees--extend in layers in the middle distance at center. At center right, Terrapin Tower is perched atop the edge of Horseshoe Falls at Terrapin Point, while, below it, water pours over the edge of the Falls in ribbons. Rocks and boulders are visible at the base of the Falls at lower right. Dramatic storm clouds are visible in the sky above.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch at Niagara Falls showing a view of Goat Island and Terrapin Tower from the American side, New York. At center, two overlapping cliffs are visible--the most distant being that of Goat Island. Just beyond it, Terrapin Tower is shown perched atop Horseshoe Falls, with most of the Falls left unrendered.
place: label: place depicted
content: Niagara Falls, New York, USA
label: made in
content: Niagara Falls, 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: 1917-4-149-a
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 gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 9.6 × 15.5 cm (3 3/4 × 6 1/8 in.)