Niagara Falls 



1864 



1864 DoRE, GUST AVE. Atala album, photographs of twelve illustrations to 



Dore Chateaubriand's Atala. Phila.: Frederick Leypoldt. N. Y.: F. W. 



Christem. 1 864. 



Contains photograph of Dore's splendid view of the Falls with several 

 others showing the gorge and the rapids. 



1868 



1868 Mr. Church's new picture of Niagara. (Lit. liv. age, May 15, 1868. 



Church 97:441-443.) 



so he has painted the Falls a second time, and now 

 from the opposite side of the St. Lawrence. 



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Our readers may remember that Mr. Church's former picture 

 of the Falls of Niagara was an oblong, whereas this is an upright 

 one; the other also was in great part a study of the rapid just 

 before the fall, whilst this is mainly a study of the fall itself and 

 of the basin below it. If asked which of the two pictures we 

 should most care to possess, we should be much embarrassed, for 

 each illustrates and supplements the other. The two together are 

 a splendid proof of what landscape-painting may do in a direc- 

 tion which, though secondary to poetical or creative art, is never- 

 theless equally important, and far more likely to be of service to 

 the generality of mankind. 



The present picture has what is usually considered a disad- 

 vantage, in an exceedingly high horizon. It is, in fact, almost a 

 bird's-eye view of the basin under the fall, the spectator being on 

 the level of the rapid above; . . . 



The effect is much the same as that of the preceding picture. 

 The sky is of a dull dusty warm gray, with warm white clouds 

 low on the horizon. The woods on the distant Canadian shore 

 are obscured by the mist rising from the fall, which adds 

 immensely to the artistic availableness of the subject. The reader 



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