Goat Island and 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 Horseshoe Falls and Goat Island from the Canadian bank of the Niagara River. In the foreground, the edge of Horseshoe Falls curves into the middle distance, where the vegetation of Goat Island is visible. In the background, billowing clouds rise over the flat horizon in an otherwise open sky.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loose figure sketch in the lower left corner showing two embracing women, both adorned in large gowns, who appear to be dancing.
place: label: made in
content: USA/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: 1917-4-1183
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 tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 12.1 × 19.3 cm (4 3/4 × 7 5/8 in.)