About the Artwork
Panoramic View of the Falls of Niagara
ca. 1846
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1793-1878
American
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Etching and aquatint printed in black ink, colored by hand
Image: 10 5/8 × 34 5/8 inches (27 × 87.9 cm) Sheet: 18 7/8 × 40 3/4 × 1 1/4 inches (47.9 × 103.5 × 3.2 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
57.132
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, along lower edge of image, various landmarks, from left to right: Ferry. American Fall, Height 164 feet, Width 56 rods. Hogs Back. Biddle Stairs. Iris Island. Horseshoe Fall, Height 158 feet, Width 114 rods., Termination Rock. Ferry. Table Rock Steps Museum. Inscribed, center lower margin: PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE FALLS OF NIAGARA, | Painted on the Spot & Engraved by Robt. Havell, Sing Sing. | Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by Robt. Havell, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, of the Southern District, of New York.
Provenance
(Argosy Book Shop);1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Early American Prints. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1957, no. 128.
Bulletin of the DIA 37, no. 1 (1957-58): pp. 11-15 (ill.).
Three Centuries of Niagara Falls. Exh. cat., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. Buffalo, 1964, no. 123.
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Robert Havell, Jr., Panoramic View of the Falls of Niagara, ca. 1846, etching and aquatint printed in black ink, colored by hand. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 57.132.
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