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Drawing, View of the Canadian Falls and Goat Island

This is a Drawing. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church. It is dated September or October 1856 and we acquired it in 1917. Its medium is brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Louis P. Church. It is credited Gift of Louis P. Church.

Its dimensions are

29.4 x 44.5 cm (11 9/16 x 17 1/2 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, View of the Canadian Falls and Goat Island; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900); USA; brush and oil paint, graphite on paperboard; 29.4 x 44.5 cm (11 9/16 x 17 1/2 in.); Gift of Louis P. Church; 1917-4-766-a

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.

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