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Falls of Niagara

(English (active in Canada), 1779–1847)
Medium/TechniqueTransulcent and opaque watercolor on paper, after an aquatint by James Pattison Cockburn made in 1840
DimensionsImage: 45.2 x 65.1 cm (17 13/16 x 25 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 47.6 x 68.1 cm (18 3/4 x 26 13/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession number56.432
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWatercolors
InscriptionsLower margin in wash: title
Provenance1956, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 7, 1956)
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