The Canadian Bank, Niagara Falls, Canada
date: label: Date
content: August 1858
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and botanical sketches showing views of the Niagara River from the Canadian bank, a fallen tree stump, a pinecone, and a bird. The view of the river dominates the composition, with the nearby bank visible in the immediate foreground, strewn with rocks and small vegetation--excepting for the rightmost portion, in which a group of spindly and twisting trees with largely barren branches hangs over the water's edge. Reflections and foam in the water are rendered with white gouache. At lower left, a detail of a pinecone on a branch is shown in some detail. Above it, a rotten tree stump lies on its side while, beside it, a small bird is shown in left profile.
place: label: made in
content: Canada
label: place depicted
content: 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: 1917-4-1295-c
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 oxidizing white gouache on tan wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 28.5 × 45.1 cm (11 1/4 × 17 3/4 in.)