Splendid Sunset, Niagara Falls, New York
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 loosely-rendered view of the sunset over Horseshoe Falls and Terrapin Tower, looking southwest from Terrapin Point on Goat Island. The tower itself is visible in the foreground at left, perched on the edge of Horseshoe Falls, which curve into the middle distance at center. Above, several houses and buildings are shown atop the heavily wooded Canadian bank of the Niagara River. Mixed, brightly-lit clouds hang in the sky above.
place: label: made in
content: Niagara Falls, New York, USA
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: 1917-4-1163
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: 28.5 × 38.8 cm (11 1/4 × 15 1/4 in.)