Niagara Falls
c. 1890
Artist, American, born Canada, 1844 - 1894
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 43.18 × 52.07 cm (17 × 20 1/2 in.)
matted: 54.61 × 64.77 cm (21 1/2 × 25 1/2 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.5200
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Paul Roth, Washington, DC, 2005; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2009; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso of mount, center left stamped in black ink circled: AWARDED / ELEVEN / FIRST PRIZE / MEDALS.; center: SPECIAL PRIZE.—SILVER MEDAL.—GERMANY,—1886. / GOLD MEDAL PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHS / GEO. BARKER, / Landscape Photographer, / FACTORY AND SALESROOMS, / No. II MAIN STREET, NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. / NIAGARA, FLORIDA AND OTHER AMERICAN SCENERY. / Special Grand Prize.--Diamond Badge. / Photographers Assn. of America,--1887. / First Prize Medal for "Interiors."—1888.; center right circled: GRAND / GOLD MEDAL / ST. LOUIS, 1886. / GOLD MEDAL / PARIS EXPOSITION / 1889; center stamped: Copyright 1890, by Geo. Barker
Wikidata ID
Q64154191