Falls of Niagara

Unidentified artist, Italian, about 1840

James Pattison Cockburn (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

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ClassificationsWatercolors

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InscriptionsLower margin in wash: titleProvenance1956, gift of Maxim Karolik (b. 1893 - d. 1963), Newport, RI, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 7, 1956)

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