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Niagara rainbows – Vintage Print

Niagara rainbows, 1910 — antique lithograph
Niagara rainbows, 1910. Antique lithograph from the State Parks collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This antique lithograph of Niagara rainbows brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Rainbows arching through the spray set this sheet apart from the broader views of the falls on this board. Joseph Pennell made it in 1910 as part of his Niagara Falls series, drawing on lithography, a medium he worked in extensively in the years before the First World War. The edition was limited to 25 impressions, and the artist signed and dated the image on the stone, so each impression came from the same drawn original. Pennell's Niagara work often emphasizes the mist and constant motion of the cataract, and the rainbows give that effect a clear focal point.

Created / published1910
Medium1 print : lithograph ; 45.2 x 28.3 cm.
Notes[His Niagara Falls series] Wuerth, 176. Edition of 25. Signed and dated on stone. DLC Title and other information from Beall. American prints in the Library of Congress : a catalog of the collection / compiled by Karen F. Beall... Baltimore : John Hopkins Press, 1970, p. 371. Gift; Pennell Collection.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,009 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141968

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