Niagara Falls: from the Canada side – Antique Print
![Niagara Falls: from the Canada side, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/93/93de84983dbc-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Niagara Falls: from the Canada side, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Niagara Falls: from the Canada side
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Niagara Falls seen from the Canadian shore is the angle that sets this print apart from the many American-side views on the same board, with the cataract and its spray set against the Horseshoe Falls. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that made popular hand-colored lithographs for the home market, published this view for a public that had already made Niagara one of the most visited natural wonders in North America. The firm's prints were often sold cheaply and framed in parlors, which is why a view like this could carry so much of the falls' reputation across the country. Its hand-coloring adds the blue-green water and foliage that the black-and-white originals could not show, so it is worth looking closely at how the colorist handled the mist.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4844 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,081 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174985 |
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