The Great Fall, Niagara

1874

Charles Risdon, after Frederick Edwin Church

Associated Names
Charles Risdon

Artist, British, active 19th century

Day and Son Lithographers

Publisher

Frederic Edwin Church

Artist After, American, 1826 - 1900

This is a print depicting the top of a large waterfall and the surrounding landscape. The top of the waterfall is the central focus, with water flowing towards the left, forming a curve around the central falls. The water close by is blue and green, with white foamy areas. Some gray-brown rocks can be seen below the moving water. A rainbow appears in the mist on the left, leading down towards the unseen bottom of the falls. The sky is filled with clouds in pale pink and gray hues, and the distant background shows trees with autumnal colors.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hand-colored chromolithograph on paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.576

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

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.

Wikidata ID

Q77009556

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