Niagara Falls, Part One
date: label: Date
content: probably September 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 the first part of a panoramic view of Niagara Falls from the Canadian side. This description addresses the entire view, with the other portions continuing on 1917-4-721-b and -c. In the foreground, Table Rock is visible at lower right, with its craggy, serrated edge. From there, Horseshoe Falls curves from the foreground into the middle distance before extending horizontally across the scene to the heavily wooded Goat Island at left. Terrapin Tower is visible just before this billowing mass of vegetation. Voluminous ribbons of speeding water cascade off the edge of the Falls, simultaneously churning up the frothing waters below and kicking up a plume of mist. Across Goat Island, in the distance at left, the American Falls are included. Multiple spires and buildings of the town of Niagara Falls in New York are visible just beyond the American Falls in the background at left. In the background at right, the heavily wooded Canadian shore of the Niagara River is shown with sporadic structures as it extends into the distance, before vanishing. The lower portions of a double rainbow are faintly visible at far left and far right before arching out of view along the upper margin.
place: label: place depicted
content: USA/Canada
label: made in
content: Niagara Falls, 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: 1917-4-721-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 off-white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 27.5 × 24.2 cm (10 13/16 × 9 1/2 in.)