Niagara Falls from the American Side

Frederic Edwin ChurchOctober 1856

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Niagara Falls from below Prospect Point with the American Fall viewed obliquely at the left and the Canadian Fall viewed frontally in the right distance. Rocks and low brush indicated at the lower right.

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Title: Niagara Falls from the American Side
Creator: Frederic Edwin Church
Creator Lifespan: 1826/1900
Date Created: October 1856
Type: Drawing
Rights: Gift of Louis P. Church
Medium: Graphite on gray-green wove paper
Paper Support: Gray-green wove paper
Inscribed: Inscribed in graphite, lower center: Oct/56
Dimensions: Image: 44.8 x 30.6 cm (17 5/8 x 12 1/16 in.)

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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