Falls of Niagara, 1833

Not on View

Medium

hand-colored aquatint on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 43.3 x 66.4 cm (17 1/16 x 26 1/8 in.)

sheet: 51.6 x 70.7 cm (20 5/16 x 27 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1964.8.1100

Artists / Makers

Charles Hunt (artist) British, active first half 19th century

James Pattison Cockburn (artist after) British, probably 1779 - 1847

Rudolf Ackermann (publisher) English, active 1794-1832

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left, in plate, below image: From a Drawing by Lieut. Col. Cockburn.; lower center, in plate, below image: Plate 6. / THE FALLS OF NIAGARA / THIS VIEW OF THE HORSE SHOE FALL, FROM GOAT ISLAND / Is by Special Permission, dedicated to His Most Excellent Majesty William the Fourth. / LONDON, PUBd 1833 BY ACKERMANN & Co 96 STRAND.; lower right, in plate, below image: Aquatint by C. Hunt; lower left corner, in graphite: [undecipherable] 654 [undecipherable]; lower right corner, in graphite: *98880; verso, lower left corner, in graphite: ams / [undecipherable] / Set of 6; upper right, in black chalk: 3095/122 6 [encircled] / #444 6 [encircled]

Marks and Labels

verso, stamped in black ink: National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection (Lugt 1932d)

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1932d); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1964.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius