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Caduta di Niagara / G.M.T. fc. 1777. – Vintage Wall Art

Caduta di Niagara / G.M.T. fc. 1777. — historic print
Caduta di Niagara / G.M.T. fc. 1777.. Historic print 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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A window into the past: Caduta di Niagara / G.M.T. fc. 1777., preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Caduta di Niagara / G.M.T. fc. 1777.

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Its Italian title, *Caduta di Niagara* ("Fall of Niagara"), suggests this etching was made for a European audience, and it is signed only with the initials G.M.T. and *fc.*, for *fecit*, meaning "made it." Dated 1777, it appeared during the American Revolution, when the Niagara frontier lay between British posts and the new United States. Few Europeans had seen the falls firsthand, so prints like this one carried reports of the cataract to viewers far from North America.

Medium1 print : etching.
Notes[1777]
SubjectsWaterfalls--New York (State)--1770-1780. Waterfalls--Ontario--1770-1780. Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--1770-1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,147 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123120

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