Niagara Falls, from the American Side
date: label: Date
content: October 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 Niagara Falls from the American side, just below Prospect Point. In the foreground, treetops, shoreline grass, and piled boulders are shown at the base of the American Falls, which curve into the middle distance at left as immense quantities of water cascade over its undulating edge. Terrapin Tower is visible just beyond the heavily wooded Goat Island, visible in the middle distance at left. In the background, Horseshoe Falls curves across the composition to encounter the Canadian bank at right. Several buildings and dense woods are visible along the Canadian bank at upper center and upper right.
place: label: made in
content: New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: New York, USA
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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: 1917-4-317-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 on gray-green wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 44.8 × 30.7 cm (17 5/8 × 12 1/16 in.)