Niagara Falls 



WlTMER, TOBIAS. Map of the town of Niagara. Drawn from sur- 

 veys and authentic records by Tobias Witmer, surveyor, 1854. 24 x 50. 

 Buffalo, N. Y.: Lith. by W. Berggoetz. [1854.] 



An inset gives a general view of the Falls from the landing on the 

 Canadian side, about where the steamer docks now. 



1855 



BoRNET, John. Niagara Falls, American side. Published by Goupil 

 & Co., 772 Broadway, N. Y.: 1855. 



This is an imposing colored view showing a steamer and a rowboat in 

 the lower river. 



FERGUSON, WILLIAM. America by river and rail, or Notes by the way 

 of the new world and its people. Lond. : James Nisbet. 1856. 

 Pp. 441-458. 



This is one of the first descriptions from a distance. The frontispiece 

 shows the Horseshoe Falls from the Canadian side. 



1857 



Church, Frederick Edward. Niagara. 1857. 



This painting of Niagara, hailed in 1 85 7 as the most wonderful repre- 

 sentation of the great waterfall, still stands in the front rank. Ten years 

 after it was painted the picture won a prize at the Paris Exposition. After 

 being widely exhibited in Europe, it was returned to this country and is 

 now in the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington. In the National Gal- 

 lery of Scotland at Edinburgh, there is another Niagara by Church. 



Church, Frederick Edward. The great fall, Niagara. Painted 

 by Frederick Edward Church. N. Y. Williams, Stevens, Williams & 

 Co. 1857. 



A pamphlet of fourteen pages giving press opinions of the great paint- 

 ing. The pamphlet is prefaced by Brainard's " Niagara." 



From the Nen> York Dai fa Times. 

 Church's Niagara. . . . What proposition has been more 

 universally accepted as an axiom in American landscape art than 

 this — that Niagara could not be reproduced on the canvas? 

 Everybody has echoed the remark — everybody has believed it 

 — nobody could question, because nobody had disproved it. 



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