Horseshoe Falls from the American Bank, Niagara Falls, New York
date: label: Date
content: July 7, 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 Horseshoe Falls and Terrapin Tower from the base of the falls at Goat Island. Massive boulders comprise the riverbank at lower center, while the cliffs of Goat Island ascend vertically to wooded tops at left. Next to them at center left, the Terrapin Tower is shown perched atop the falls as massive quantities of water cascade in ribbons over the edges flanking it. At center, the bulge of Horseshoe Falls curves into the distance, where the opposite side of the falls stretches horizontally across the middle distance. The heavily wooded Canadian Bank of the Niagara River is visible in the background.
label: Description
content: Verso: Loosely rendered landscape sketch showing a section of Niagara Falls, partially interrupted by a rock on its edge, producing a billowing plume of mist at its base.
place: label: made in
content: Niagara, New York, USA
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-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 light green wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 30.8 × 44.8 cm (12 1/8 × 17 5/8 in.)