Ice, Niagara Falls
date: label: Date
content: March 20, 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 ice and snow in Niagara Falls at winter, possibly viewed from the Cave of the Winds. At upper right, numerous undulating icicles hang from a ledge that rises diagonally toward upper center. At center, a concial mass of snow and ice is prominently visible. In the foreground at left and lower center, other snow-covered ice formations are shown, while the top of the one of the falls is visible in the distance through a window at center left.
label: Description
content: Verso: Extremely loose sketch of ice formations, cliffs, and the cascades around Niagara Falls during winter. Most forms are indistinct.
place: label: made in
content: USA/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: 1917-4-1165
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 wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 45.4 × 31.4 cm (17 7/8 × 12 3/8 in.)