Horseshoe Falls, Niagara River, 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 view of the top of Horseshoe Falls on the Niagara River, viewed from the Canadian bank. Water cascades in ribbons over of the curving edge of the falls, which extends horizontally across the composition. The terrapin tower is shown at far left, while a distant cloud is shown on the horizon at far right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Unfinished, loose botanical sketch of the trunk and lower boughs of a tree near Niagara Falls. Smaller branches are predominantly excluded from the view.
place: label: place depicted
content: USA/Canada
label: made in
content: Niagara Falls, Ontario, 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: 1917-4-148-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 and white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 9.7 × 15.2 cm (3 13/16 in. × 6 in.)