The American Falls, Niagara River, New York
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 looking southwest down the American Falls of the Niagara River, from a vantage known as Prospect Point. The zig-zagging edge of the falls curves from the foreground to the middle distance at left as sheets of water cascade over it. At center, Goat Island and its wooded contour are visible, while beyond it at right, the Terrapin Tower and a portion of Horseshoe Falls are included.
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: 1917-4-147-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 white wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 11.8 × 19.8 cm (4 5/8 × 7 13/16 in.)