Horseshoe Falls and the Terrapin Tower from Below, Niagara Falls, New York
date: label: Date
content: 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 Horseshoe Falls and the Terrapin Tower from the bottom of Goat Island, near the river's edge. At left, boulders and stones are piled at the base of Goat Island. Above, the convex portion of Horseshoe Falls is topped by the Terrapin Tower, while the remaining, concave section of the falls curve to the edge of the leaf at right. Foliage is visible on the distant shore.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loose atmosphere sketch showing a view of an arching rainbow in the mist of Niagara Falls.
place: label: place depicted
content: Canada
label: made in
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: 1917-4-34-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 and white gouache on gray-green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 30.7 × 44.5 cm (12 1/16 × 17 1/2 in.)