Maps and Pictures 



his feet over angry looking rocks here and there revealed amid the 1857 

 snowy-crested breakers — serve him for his only, and the most urc 

 appropriate, foreground. 



In some respects it is as difficult to describe this picture as the 

 subject of it. Where sound and motion overwhelm the spectator, 

 as in beholding Niagara, earth and sky are forgotten. So in this 

 painting, we have no earth for a foreground, and a sky that is so 

 fleecy and palpitating for a distance, that until a section of a 

 rainbow (which seems to counterfeit nature) paints itself upon 

 the rising spray, and the deep emerald of the falling waters carries 

 your eye upward, you have been scarcaly conscious that the pic- 

 ture had any sky at all : but you now feel that it has, and the most 

 admirable which could have been given it ; for who ever thinks of 

 the sky when viewing Niagara? 



There is the warm glow of an October afternoon reflected back 

 from the zenith upon the waters: and with this delicate amber 

 tint, flickering between sunlight and shade — foam crested waves 

 and their deep green caverns, this picture presents the most truth- 

 ful representation of water, in all the phases of color and motion, 

 that we have yet seen upon the canvas. Your eye and mind 

 wander up the " Rapids " until lost in contemplation; and you 

 only return with the rush of waters, to leap madly into the chasm 

 below, to be lost again in the most sublime reverie ! 



The picture makes you feel this; and, if you have imagination, 

 much more. It is the great painting of the grandest subject of 

 nature! It is the chef d'oeuvre of Niagaras upon any canvas, 

 and must give to its painter a fame as imperishable as his 

 subject. 



From the Boston Weekly Traveller. 



Church's Painting of Niagara — ... This Niagara of 

 Church's is so calm and satisfactory that ordinary praise is imper- 

 tinent. To say, " How beautiful it is! " is like saying the same 

 thing of a perfect June day. A thousand pictures have been 

 painted of the same great scene ; everybody has been to gaze upon 



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