Study for "Niagara"
date: label: Date
content: 1856–57
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 Canadian Side that is nearly identical to Church's renowned painting, "Niagara" (1857), and likely served as a study for it. In the foreground, roiling water of the Niagara River churn and tumble before they plummet off the edge of the falls, which curves into the middle distance at center and center right from the foreground at lower left. At center, Terrapin Tower is visible beside the heavily wooded Goat Island. Because this view is positioned slightly more to the north than the finished painting, the American Falls are visible in the background at left, beyond Goat Island. A double rainbow arches over the scene from center left to center right.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing the outline of an extremely rugged mountain range with craggy pinnacles, at left, with the sun hanging above a valley, at right.
place: label: place depicted
content: New York, USA
label: made in
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: 1917-4-151-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 paperboard; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 22.5 cm (4 13/16 × 8 7/8 in.)