Niagara Falls 



1857 it may well be conceived, what labor has been necessary to 

 apprehend the bewildering facts, what patient mastery to repre- 

 sent them, so as to leave the spectator impressed, as by the 

 presence of the stupendous reality, with the abstraction of motion 

 and sound. . . . 



1857 FAIRBANKS, J. H. A map of the vicinity of Niagara Falls. Drawn 



Fairbanks from actual survey for Tunis' guide. 16x21. Buffalo, N. Y.: E. R. 

 Jewett & Co. 1857. 



Shows Gull Island, and various points on the American and Canadian 

 shores are indicated — the Pavilion, Prospect House, etc. There are two 

 small views of the Falls. 



1859 



1859 Gignoux's Niagara. (Harp, w., July 9, 1859. 3:436.) 



An engaving of " Gignoux's Niagara — The Property of August Bel- 

 mont." 



We have the pleasure of laying before our readers an engrav- 

 ing of M. Gignoux's Niagara, one of the noblest works of 

 American art. It will be remembered that M. Gignoux executed, 

 some eighteen months ago, a painting of Niagara, which was 

 exhibited together with a painting on the same subject by Mr. 

 Church. Both became the property of a firm of print-sellers. 

 Mr. August Belmont, the well-known banker and millionaire, 

 who expected to purchase M. Gignoux's picture, was so much 

 disappointed at losing it that he gave the artist a commission to 

 execute a new Niagara for him. The result of that order is the 

 admirable work which we now engrave. . . . M. Gignoux 

 has painted Niagara by moonlight, the point of view being from 

 Goat Island, and the main scene the Horseshoe Fall. Words 

 fail to describe the beauty of the original work. It is one of 

 those delicious scenes on which the eye can feast for hours 

 together. One almost fancies, in gazing into the soft summer 

 night-air which envelops the scene, that the ear hears the roar of 

 the cataract as the eye sees the floating moonbeams which dance 

 over the broad rushing stream. 



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