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A View of the Western Branch of the Falls of Niagara, taken from the Table Rock, looking up the River, over the Rapids

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Date:

1804.

Type of material:

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Item ID number:

3665441

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John Vanderlyn collection

A View of the Western Branch of the Falls of Niagara, taken from the Table Rock, looking up the River, over the Rapids
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Date(s):

1804.

Place:

London (England):

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Publisher:

John Vanderlyn,

Extent:

1 print / estampe : engraving, hand-coloured on wove paper
Support 61.800 x 82.700 cm
Image 75.400 x cm

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A rare hand-coloured version of this print. On the lower left margin of the print is an oval collector's stamp, bearing a crown and entwined letters "AE" and with the motto Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense.
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Artist: Vanderlyn, John, 1775-1852

Engraver: Lewis, Frederick Christian, 1779-1856
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General note:

set: One of two prints published by John Vanderlyn in London in 1804.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscribed. Signed. Dated., Inscription: recto, in print, below image l.l.: Painted by J. Vanderlyn; l.c.: London, Published by John Vanderlyn,August,1804; l.r.: Engraved by F. C. Lewis; centre bottom: A VIEW of the WESTERN BRANCH of the FALLS of NIAGARA, taken from the TABLE ROCK, looking up the RIVER, over the RAPIDS.; lower bottom: To the Society of Fine Arts of New York this Print is respectfully inscribed by their most obed.t hum.ble Serv.t John Vanderlyn.
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Ontario

landscape

paysage
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Private

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1946-163 PIC
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Credit: Library and Archives Canada
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