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Drawing, Niagara Falls with the Terrapin Tower

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, brush and white gouache on light-green wove paper.. 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

30.6 x 44.4 cm (12 1/16 x 17 1/2 in.)

It has the following markings

Recto: Stamped in black ink lower left: Museum for the Arts of Decoration Cooper Union [Lugt 457c]

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, at bottom 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, Niagara Falls with the Terrapin Tower; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; graphite, brush and white gouache on light-green wove paper.; 30.6 x 44.4 cm (12 1/16 x 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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