Distant View of Niagara Falls, Niagara River, Canada
date: label: Date
content: July 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 distant view of Niagara Falls and the Canadian bank of the Niagara River, as seen from the surface of the river itself. The river's surface extends from the foreground to the middle distance, where it encounters the American Falls at left, Goat Island at center left, and Horseshoe Falls at center which curve into the Canadian bank at right. A large hotel is adjacent to Horseshoe Falls at right, while nearby trees and foliage are visible at far right.
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: 1917-4-1295-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
label: Dimensions
content: 28.7 × 45.8 cm (11 5/16 × 18 1/16 in.)