The Great Fall, Niagara, 1874

Not on View

Medium

hand-colored chromolithograph on paperboard

Dimensions

sheet: 41.43 × 90.81 cm (16 5/16 × 35 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Accession Number

2015.19.576

Artists / Makers

Charles Risdon (artist) British, active 19th century

Frederic Edwin Church (artist after) American, 1826 - 1900

Day and Son Lithographers (publisher)

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Inscription

lower right on stone: F. E. Church. / 1857.; lower right edge on stone: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1857 by Williams, Stevens, Williams & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court in the Southern District of New York. London, Published by Day & Son Lithographers to the Queen, Gale Street, Lincolns Inn Field.

Provenance

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art