Horseshoe Falls and Table Rock, Niagara Falls, Canada
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 Horseshoe Falls and Table Rock from the Canadian Side of Niagara Falls. In the foreground at right, the craggy edge of Table Rock visibly extends toward the middle distance, where ribbons of foaming water pour over the curving edge of Horseshoe Falls, kicking up a plume of mist when they meet the basin below. The Falls extend out of view at upper left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of American Falls and Goat Island from the Canadian Side of Niagara Falls. Positioned on the right side of the leaf and framed by a dividing line at left, Goat Island is visible in the middle distance at right beside the American Falls, at left. The waters of the Niagara River comprise the foreground while a rainbow begins to arch over the scene at left, extending out of view at upper center.
place: label: made in
content: Niagara Falls, Canada
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: 1917-4-146-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, brush and white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 15.3 × 9.6 cm (6 × 3 3/4 in.)