Sketches of Niagara Falls, New York
date: label: Date
content: April 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 three views of Niagara Falls. Two stacked views of the bulging portion of Horseshoe Falls are shown at left, with the Terrapin Tower included in the uppermost depictions, while, at right, the zig-zagging edge of the American Falls is shown from the northern bank of the falls.
label: Description
content: Verso: Landscape sketch showing a view of the sun setting behind a bank puffy clouds over the Niagara River. At right, a double-masted boat floats on the water's surface at right, and partially travels out of view. In the background, the heavily wooded opposite bank of the river is visible while, above, the sun emanates beams of light into the sky. In the foreground, nearby rocks are shown.
place: label: made in
content: Niagara Falls, New York, USA
label: place depicted
content: New York, USA
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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: 1917-4-1003
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 white wove paper; verso: graphite
label: Dimensions
content: 12.3 × 22.7 cm (4 13/16 × 8 15/16 in.)