Double Rainbow over Niagara Falls, Canada
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 showing a view of a double rainbow over Niagara Falls as seen from the Canadian side, drawn within rectangular framing lines. At right, the lower portions of both rainbows are clear, while only one visibly arches over the entirety of Horseshoe Falls, at right, Goat Island, at center, and the American Falls, at left. In the foreground, the churning waters of the Niagara River prepare to tumble over the vast, curving edge of Horseshore Falls, which extends from the foreground into the middle distance.
label: Description
content: Verso: Unfinished landscape sketch showing the rippling waters of the Niagara River and the trees and other vegetation on its opposite bank, likely Goat Island.
place: label: made in
content: Niagara Falls, 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: 1917-4-151-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 on tan laid paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 22.6 cm (4 13/16 × 8 7/8 in.)