Niagara Falls 



1851 



Prescott 



1851 



1851 

 Dana 



I shall be much disappointed if it does not please you well 

 enough to hang upon your walls as a faithful representation of 

 the great cataract ; and I trust you will gratify me by accepting it 

 as a souvenir of your friend across the water. I assure you it 

 pleases me much to think there is anything I can send you from 

 this quarter of the world which will give you pleasure. . , . 

 And believe me, dearest Carlisle, 



Ever faithfully yours, 



W. H. Prescott. 



. Panoramic view of Niagara, c 1 852. 



This colored view is taken from the Canadian side, and shows the 

 edge of the Canadian shore in the foreground. 



Dana, CHARLES A. Niagara Falls (general view from Clifton 

 house). 4x6. (In Dana, C. A. ed., The United States illustrated. 

 2 vol. in one. N. Y.: H.J.Meyer. [1853.] Vol. I. P. 13.) 



A pretty view looking full into both falls from below and showing the 

 rainbow. There is also a description, pages 13—18. 



1853 



1853 (Frankenstein, G. N.) Niagara. (Harp., Aug., 1853. 7:289- 



Frankenstein 305.) 



The Falls described in the form of running commentary on sketches by 

 G. N. Frankenstein, made as studies for his " Panorama of Niagara Falls." 

 " The artist from whose labors we have so largely borrowed, has made 

 the study of the Great Cataract a labor of love. He summered and 

 wintered by it. He has painted it by night and by day; by sunlight and 

 by moonlight; under a summer sun, and amid the rigors of a Canadian 

 winter, when the gray rocks wore an icy robe, and the spray congealed 

 into icicles upon his stiffened garments. The sketches from which we have 

 selected have grown up under his hands for a half score of years; and we 

 can not doubt that many to whom Niagara wears the face of a familiar 

 friend will find themselves transported to it in imagination, as they look 

 upon the results of his labors; and many who may never behold the Falls, 

 will gain some just though inadequate conception of their magnificence and 

 beauty." 



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