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Drawing, Horseshoe Falls and the Terrapin Tower from Below, Niagara Falls, New York

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated 1856 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is graphite and white gouache on grey-green wove paper; verso: graphite. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

Its dimensions are

30.7 × 44.5 cm (12 1/16 × 17 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

Stamped: in black ink, lower left, L.457c

It is inscribed

Inscribed: in graphite, upper left: reddish / red dark; in graphite, center left: rocky / dry; in graphite, lower left: Where the water washes the rock the color / is a lightish yellowish brown, warm. / Dry rock - grey and blackish, but warm.

Cite this object as

Drawing, Horseshoe Falls and the Terrapin Tower from Below, Niagara Falls, New York; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite and white gouache on grey-green wove paper; verso: graphite; 30.7 × 44.5 cm (12 1/16 × 17 1/2 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-34-a

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.

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