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Prints of Niagara Falls
1841 to 1850

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150. W. H. Bartlett. "Der Fall Des Niagara. Von Clifton House Aus. Payne's Universum." LC: "No. 73." From Das malerische und romantische Nordamerika, Nach den Zeichnungen von W.H. Bartlett, in Stahl gestochen von A.H. Payne. Leipzig: Englischen Kunstandstalt ["English Art Institute"], after 1840. 4 x 6. Steel engraving by A.H. Payne.

A slightly smaller copy of Bartlett's classic [136] "Niagara Falls. (From near Clifton House.)" From a German edition of American Scenery. This may also have been issued in Payne's Universum.


151. W.H. Bartlett. "Niagara Falls: the Landing on the American side." BC: "Eng'd for this Magazine." After 1840. 4 3/4 x 7 1/8. Steel engraving by L.S. Punderson. Cf. Seibel1: 6.

A direct copy of Bartlett's [137] "The Landing, On The American Side," though a bit more crudely engraved. Possibly this is the same print as is listed in Seibel1, p.6, which is cited as coming from Lady's Book.


151a. W.H. Bartlett. "Brock's Monument." UR: "XVIII." UL: "1840." After 1840. 5 7/8 x 7 3/4. Lithograph.

A copy of Bartlett's [139] "Brock's Monument. (From the American Side.)."


152. Chaillot. "Chute Du Niagara." Paris: Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger, after 1840. 3 7/8 x 5 7/8. Steel engraving by Chaillot. Printed by Gilquin et Dupain, Paris.

A derivative of Bartlett's [135] "The Horseshoe Fall, Niagara." The perspective, general landscape, strollers along and man at the end of Terrapin walkway, man on the tower, and other features indicate that this was copied from Bartlett with just enough changes made to make it an "original" print.


152ad. "View from the Pagoda." UR: "Niagara Falls, N.Y." No date, but ca. 1840-50. Ca. 3 x 7 5/8. Lithograph by Hall & Mooney, Buffalo. On banknote paper. Dow: 914; Seibel: 47.

This print was probably the heading of a decorative sheet of stationary with the bottom part trimmed. This image looks like it may have been drawn using a camera lucida.


153. After W.H. Bartlett. "Falls of Niagara. From Clifton House." LC: "84." New York: Nathaniel Currier, 152 Nassau Street, 1840-56. Small folio: 8 3/8 x 12 3/4. Lithograph. Hand color. Conningham: 1827; Gale: 1985; Seibel1: 26.

Based directly on Bartlett's [136] "Niagara Falls. (From near Clifton House.)"


154. W.H. Bartlett. "Niagara Falls. (from the top of the ladder, on the American Side.)" LC: "Engraved for the Lady's Book." From Godey's Lady's Book and Ladies' American Magazine. Philadelphia, February, 1841. 4 3/4 x 7. Steel engraving by A.L. Dick. Seibel1: 6.

A.L. Dick began to engrave illustrations for Godey's Lady's Book in July 1840. He introduced larger and better quality prints to the publication, and was its exclusive engraver until early 1842. Godey's was one of the leading magazines of the period, and its engravings and fashion plates were perhaps its most popular feature. These "formed the great feature of Godey's-the embellishments. Do not call them illustrations. They did not illustrate the text; the text illustrated them. The editor was wont to refer to some story or sketch as `the illustration of the plate.'" (Mott, Volume I, p.591)


Prints from Jean B.G. Roux de Rochelle's Historia de los Etados-Unidos de America. Barcelona: Guardia Natcional, 1841. UC: "Etats-Unis."/"Estados-Unidos."

Two views from a Spanish edition of Roux de Rochelle's work on America, part of his large series entitled L'Univers. Roux de Rochelle was the French Minister to the United States and the volume on the U.S., Etats-Unis d'Amerique, first appeared in Paris in 1837. Beginning in 1839 this work was reissued in several French editions, as well as in editions of Italian, Spanish, and German. The image after Milbert is similar to his [80] "Chûte générale du Niagara, côté du Canada," but with a slightly different view-point. It is not clear if this image was just reworked from the earlier view or was based on another Milbert drawing.


156ad. "Niagara Falls." Boston: H. Prentiss, 1841. Song sheet illustration. Vignette illustration, ca. 7 x 8. Lithograph by J.H. Bufford & Co.

A song sheet illustration of a ferry boat below the falls. The falls, rather foreshortened, are shown in the background, table rock to the right. The boat, filled with tourists, is being rowed by two boatmen.


157. "Falls Of Niagara." In Rural Repository, A Semi-montly Journal, Embellished with Engravings. Hudson, N.Y.: March 12, 1842. 6 1/4 x 4 3/4. Wood engraving.


Prints by William Henry Bartlett. From Nathaniel Parker Willis' Canadian Scenery. London: George Virtue, 1842. Steel engravings.

The success of Willis and Bartlett's American Scenery inspired the publication of their subsequent Canadian Scenery. This work included only one new image of the Falls itself, though it had six new ones of the Niagara region. The print, "The horse-shoe fall. (from the Canada Side)," appeared also as the title page frontispiece in B.B. Woodward's Barclay's Universal English Dictionary, ca. 1848. The print of "Navy Island," lacking "(from the Canada side.)," also appeared in Bartlett's The History Of The United States Of America (London & New York, George Virtue, 1856). The dates given are for the first appearance of each print in the original parts.


Prints after W.H. Bartlett. From Steele's Niagara Falls Port-Folio, Containing Eight New Views of Niagara Falls. Taken From The Most Striking Points. Buffalo: Steele's Press, 1842. Lithographs by Hall & Mooney. Cf. Dow: 900; Seibel1: 81.

Originally included in Steele's booklet, but missing from the Penney Collection, are the prints: "The American Fall from Goat Island," "Ferry Landing on the American Side," and an image of Brock's Monument, the copy of which in the Erie County & Buffalo Public Library is untitled. All the prints issued in this portfolio are direct copies of Bartlett's prints from American Scenery, with the exception of "The American Fall from Goat Island," which is based on a Bennett view [96]. These prints are approximately the same size and have the same compositions as Bartlett's prints, though they are a bit cruder in execution. There were other editions of Steele's Port-Folio issued in 1843 and 1844, both of which include a facsimile of Hennepin's view [2] (plate 1), lithographed by Hall & Mooney.


169. Carl Bodmer. "Niagara Falle."/"Les Chutes Du Niagara."/"Niagara Falls." UR: "Tab. 39." London: Ackermann & Co., Coblenz: J. Holscher, and Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1843. 11 7/8 x 17 1/8. Aquatint by Lucas Weber. Printed by Bougeard. Hand color. With "C. Bodmer" blind stamp. Adamson2: 166; DeVolpi: 25; Dow: 899; Eland: 111; Siebel: 11.

This print was issued with Prince Maximilian of Wied's journal of his trip to North America. Maximilian stopped at Niagara in June 1834 on his way back from the trans-Mississippi west. Bodmer had been taken along by the Prince in order to make drawings to illustrate Maximilian's journal.


Prints from James Hall's Geology Of New-York. Part IV. Comprising The Survey Of The Fourth Geological District. Albany: Carroll and Cook, 1843.


Prints in T.G. Hulett's Every Man His Own Guide To The Falls Of Niagara. Buffalo, 1843. 3rd edition. 12mo. Wood engravings by John W. Orr.

The map and all the prints other than the Bartlett derivative are re-engravings of the prints that first appeared in De Veaux's guide of 1839 [123-127].


179. "Horse-Shoe Fall, Niagara." Prob. 1844-45. 10 1/4 x 15 1/2. Lithograph. Seibel1: 99.

A wonderful, though sad, lithograph showing Niagara Falls as the site of two personal tragedies in August, 1844, probably issued in Niagara Falls or Buffalo late that year or early the next. In the foreground, Miss Martha K. Rugg is shown falling to her death from the embankment, plunging into the abyss just beyond the reach of her companion. This event befell on August 24, very shortly after another calamity, for on August 16, Mr. J.N. Thompson was washed into the river and drowned at the foot of the downpour. In the print Mr. Thompson's body is shown floating in the river below, even though the two mishaps took place over a week apart.


180. Robert Havell, Jr.. "Niagara Falls. Painted from the Chinese Pagoda, Point View Gardens, by Robert Havell, Sing Sing." New York: R. Havell, and W.A. Colman, and R.F. Fraser, and Spearing, and London: Ackermann & Co., 1845. 18 x 27. Aquatint and etching by R. Havell, Jr.. Printed partly in color by W. Neale. Hand color by Havell & Spearing. Adamson2: 97; Deák2: 532; Dow: 901; Seibel1: 49.

One of two prints issued by Havell, this one shows Niagara from Prospect Park. "[Havell's] presentation reflects the awesomeness of the Niagara cataract, but for the most part he allows the beauty of the locale to take precedence over its sublimity." (Deák2, p.357)


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181. F.I.(?) Swinton. Caption at top: "1845. Lake Ontario Route. 1845." Caption at bottom: "The Steamers Lady of the Lake, J.J. Taylor Master & Rochester, H.N. Throop Master. Will run during the Season between Lewiston & Ogdensburgh. touching at intermediate American & Canadian Ports as follows:..." Albany: John H. Hall, 1845. 14 1/8 x 23 3/4. Lithograph. Hand color.

A promotional broadside for the Ontario Steam And Canal Boat Company. It shows the two steamers in the foreground, and-using artistic license-the Falls stretching along in the background. Terrapin Tower is depicted, as is Brock's Monument, again shown out of place for artistic reasons.


181a. Louis Hennepin. "Fac Simile Of A View Of Niagara Falls, by Father Louis Hennepin. From the original Utrecht Edition 1697." UR: "Pl.IV." From Charles Lyell's Travels in North America in 1841-42. London: John Murray, and New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. 5 3/8 x 6 5/8. Lithograph by Hullmandel & Walton. Dow: 855.

A facsimilie of Hennepin's print [2], from Lyell's book on North America. This work was first issued in London and New York in 1845 and then in later editions of 1852 and 1856.


181ad. After Charles Lyell. "Stromgebiet des Niagara." LL: "2*" Ca. 1845+. 3 5/8 x 6 1/8. Wood engraving.

A bird's eye view of the Niagara region based on the image which appeared in Charles Lyell's Travels in North America in 1841-42, probably from a later, German edition of the same work.. Similar to [185], but not in color.


182. W.H. Bartlett. "The Horse Shoe Fall, Niagara.-With The Tower." From New York Illustrated Magazine. New York, 1845-1847. 4 3/4 x 7 7/8. Steel engraving by A.L. Dick. Seibel1: 5.

A re-engraving by A.L. Dick of the Bartlett view of the same title [135]. The New York Illustrated Magazine ran from September 1845 until March 1847. This print was also issued in 80 Year's Progress in the U.S. (Hartford, 1867).


Prints by James Hamilton after sketches by T. Taylor. Philadelphia: William Smith, [1845?6]-ca.1860. Mixed method intaglio etchings by J.M. Butler, Philadelphia. Dow: 900; Seibel1: 47/83.

Hamilton (1819-1878) was born in Ireland and immigrated to the US at age 15. He was in Philadelphia at mid-century as a landscape artist and teacher. Adamson2 gives 1846 as the original date of publication of these prints, but other sources state 1845. These examples are reprints of Hamilton's plates issued by Philadelphia publisher William Smith, ca. 1860.


185. Charles Lyell. "Vogel-Perspective Der Niagara-Falle Und Der Angrnzenden Gegend Geologisch Colorirt." UL: "Pl.I." From Charles Lyell's Reisen in Nord-Amerika, mit Beobachtungen uber die geognostischen Verhaltnisse der Vereinigten Staaten von Canada und Neu-Schottland. Halle, 1846. Chromolithograph by E. Sachse, Gorlitz. ("Lithogr. u Farbendruck v. E. Sachse in Gorlitz.")

A print from the German edition of Lyell's Travels in North American (cf. [181a]). This print includes a key to the towns, which is printed below the image, and a key to the strata (1-6), which is printed to the right of the image. Essentially the same image appeared in the first edition of Lyell's book, in 1845. Both views are similar to [171] "Birdseye View Of Niagara Falls, And the Surrounding Country," from James Hall's Geology Of New-York. It is possible that there may be some connection between Hall's and Lyell's images.


186. Gibert. "Chute Du Niagara. (Amerique du Nord)." Paris, prior to 1846? 4 1/4 x 6. Steel engraving by Jouanny-Lechard. Printed by Sarazin. Seibel1: 43.

Seibel1 says this print was issued around 1860, but it seems more likely that it was published prior to the launching of the Maid of the Mist in 1846, as only row boats are shown in the river.


Prints published by "Kunstanstalt d. Bibliogr[aphisches]. Instituts in Hildbghs," (Art Institute of the Bibliographic Institution in Hildburghausen,) 1833-1864. Steel engravings.

The Bibliographisches Institut issued a journal, Meyer's Universum, from 1833 to 1864, containing text and steel engravings of all parts of the world. It was founded by Joseph Meyer, and when he died in 1856 at sixty-one, his son Herrmann took over. Herrmann had been sent to the U.S. from 1849 to his father's death, issuing an American edition of Meyer's Universum Or Views Of The Most Remarkable Places And Objects Of All Countries, which was published by the North American Bibliographic Institution (New York: H.J. Meyer; first volume, 1852; second volume 1853.) using prints from Germany. He also published Dana's The United States Illustrated.


190. After W.H. Bartlett. "Falls Of Niagara." New York: Sarony & Major, 1846-47. 11 5/8 x 8 1/8. Lithograph by Sarony & Major, 99 Nassau near Fulton. Hand color.

A close copy of Bartlett's [134] "View Below Table Rock." The date is based upon the dates when Sarony & Major was located at 99 Nassau.


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191. Fred H. Holloway. "Horse-Shoe & Table Rock." From the portfolio Views of Niagara Falls by F. Holloway. Buffalo, 1846-1850. 7 3/8 x 12 1/2. Tinted lithograph by Hall & Mooney. Printed by Steam Press of Jewett, Thomas & Co. Cf. Seibel1: 52.

The cover and several of the other prints from Holloway's portfolio, Views of Niagara Falls, are in the collection of the Niagara Falls Historical Society. The Maid of the Mist (1846-54) appears in a number of the views, which establishes a terminus a quo of 1846 for the portfolio. Peters lists the firm of Hall & Mooney as existing until 1850, establishing the terminus a quem for the portfolio.


Prints by Fred H. Holloway. Two prints from a series of four. New York: Sarony & Major, 1846-54. Tinted lithographs with hand highlights. Seibel1: 52.

The range of dates of these prints is established by the appearance of the Maid of the Mist (1846-54). There may be a direct connection between the Holloway lithographs by Hall & Mooney (cf. [191]) and these by Sarony & Major.


194. After W.H. Bartlett. "Niagara Fall. (Allgemeine Ansicht Vom Clifton House)." 1846-54. 4 1/8 x 6 1/8. Steel engraving. Hand color.

A slightly modified version of Bartlett's [136] "Niagara Falls. (From near Clifton House.)," with the addition of the Maid of the Mist (1846-54). This print was printed from the same plate as was used for [276] "Niagara Falls (General View From Clifton House)" in Dana's United States Illustrated. The size, border design, and engraving of this print are the same as for the three prints [187-189] issued by "Kunstanstalt d. Bibliogr. Instituts in Hildbghs." Therefore, though this print does not list that institute as its publisher, it is likely that it came originally from the same source as those prints came from.


195. "Plan of Niagara River and Falls." From Popular Cyclopedia of History. Hartford, 1847. 3 5/8 x 5 7/8. Wood engraving.

A small but reasonably detailed bird's eye view of the Falls. It shows the bridge to Goat Island, Table Rock House and stairs, the ferry below the falls, and the Terrapin walkway.


Prints by M E & K. British (?), ca. 1847. Two tone lithographs. Some hand highlighting.

A pair of lithographs both dated "Oct. 1847" in the image. The style of lithography indicates that these were perhaps issued in England. Both are printed on large sheets of stiff paper, so they may have been part of a portfolio or privately issued.


261. John Peter Frankenstein. "Bellevue Springs. (Near Niagara Falls.)" From Ladies' Repository. Cincinatti & New York, April 1848. 5 1/8 x 6 1/2. Engraving by Illman & Son. Cf. Seibel: 40. [Mis-dated in Impressions, so # out of order]

John P. Frankenstein was the brother of Godfrey N., George L., and Gustavus Frankenstein, all of who were working on Godfrey's panorama of Niagara Falls (cf. [236-252]) around 1853. Bellevue Springs was a medicinal spring which was a popular tourist spot in the 1820s & 30s. This likely is the same print that Seibel attributes to Gustavus (Seibel1: 40) and that McKinsey ascribes to Godfrey (McKinsey, p.310, fn.11). The example of this print in the Penney Collection has John Frankenstein's name printed at the bottom of the image. This does not appear to be the case with the example of the print in the Niagara Falls Historical Society, thus possibly explaining the confusion.


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Prints by Henry Davis. London: Thomas McLean, May 1, 1848. Chromolithographs by J. Meedham and A. Laby. Seibel1: 27.

A set of four prints after drawings done in 1846 by Major Henry Davis while he was on duty in Canada with the 52nd Lt. Infantry. "The four compositions are among the most romanticized conceptions of Niagara's grandeur." (Adamson1, p.39) "Horse Shoe Fall, From S.W. Edge, Near The Table Rock" shows a non-existent rocky island--with two figures standing on it--depicted lying in the rapids just above the brink of the Horseshoe Falls.


202. W.H. Bartlett. "Niagara Falls. (From near Clifton House.)" From The Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine. New York: Ormsby and Hackett, August, 1848. Engraving by J. Bannister. 4 1/2 x 6 7/8.

A re-engraving of the original Bartlett print [136] of the same name. From a periodical commonly called The Columbian Magazine, which ran from January 1844 to February 1849.


203. "Der Niagarafluss." Leipzig & Dresden: for the Englischen Kunstandstalt by A.H. Payne, ca. 1848. 6 5/8 x 4 1/4. Steel engraving by A.H. Payne. Dow: 925; Seibel1: 69.

This is a unusual picture of Niagara which appears to be a composite image put together by Payne. The Falls is quite incorrectly drawn, though the delineation could be based on an image of the American Falls, for the waterfall depicted is shaped somewhat like that cataract and an island that looks like Luna Island is shown. However, the island that would then be Goat Island is drawn far too large and with a nonexistent high ridge in the distance. Another incorrect feature of the picture is that the water flows toward the brink from off to the left as well as running down the river in the center background. Finally, a large suspension bridge is drawn crossing the river not far above the falls. This rendering appears to be based on the Niagara Suspension Bridge, a bridge located well downstream, not upstream from the cataract, which would date the print to about 1848. It is possible that this print was issued in an edition of Payne's Universum.


204. "Falls of Niagara. From The Canada Side." LC: "391." New York (86 Fulton St.) & Hartford (136 Main St.): Kellogg & Comstock, 1848-50. Also: Buffalo: Ensign & Thayer, 12 Exchange St.. 8 x 12 1/4. Lithograph. Hand color. Seibel1: 58.

A copy of the Currier print [153] "Falls of Niagara. From Clifton House," which was itself a copy of a Bartlett print [136].


Prints from Robert Sears' A New and Popular Pictorial Description of the United States. New York: R. Sears, [1848]-1849. Wood engravings.

Two prints from Sears' work which was issued in 1848, 1849, 1853, 1854, and perhaps other years.


Prints from Robert Sears' A Pictorial Description of the United States. New York: R. Sears, [1848]-1853? Wood engravings.

The same images as from the 1849 issue of Sear's Pictorial Description [205, 205a], but with changed titles. As the 1853 edition states that the work was expanded and revised, these images may come from that edition or a later one.


207. "Construction Of The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge.-Basket Ferry And Temporary Towers." From The Illustrated London News. London: William Little, February 17, 1849. Half page illustration: ca. 5 3/4 x 9 1/4. Wood engraving. DeVolpi: 34; Seibel1: 55.

One of the earliest appearances of Niagara Falls in an illustrated weekly newspaper.


208. Miller. "Niagara Falls." Title page illustration from Holden's Dollar Magazine. New York, March 1849. 4 1/4 x 7 1/4. Wood engraving by Richardson.

An interesting view which shows the top of both stairs and the incline railway at Prospect Point.


209. [Niagara Falls.] Title page illustration for Godey's Lady's Book. Volume 39. Philadelphia: L.A. Godey, July to December 1849. Vignette on octavo page; ca. 3 3/4 x 3 1/2. Engraving. Hand color. Dow: 902; Seibel1: 25.

A title page illustration which shows two Indians looking at the cataract from Goat Island. Dow attributes to the print to W. Groome-A.W. Graham. Seibel1 lists the print under "W. Croome."


Prints by August Köllner. All UC: "Niagara Falls." From Views of American Cities. New York & Paris: Goupil, Vibert & Co., 1849-51. Copyright date of 1848. 8 1/8 x 11 3/4. Sepia lithographs by Isidore-Laurent Deroy. Printed by Cattier. Hand color. Seibel1: 59-60.

August Theodore Frederick Adam Köllner, born in Wurttenberg in 1812, worked as an artist, engraver and lithographer in Stuttgart and Paris before emigrating to America in 1839. From his earliest days in the United States, Köllner travelled around the country making drawings of his adopted land. Beginning in 1848, Goupil, Vibert & Co. published a series of 54 of Köllner's views, including eight prints of Niagara. The print of the Suspension Bridge is supposed to show the first bridge across the Niagara River, a temporary structure designed by Charles Ellet, Jr. which was built in 1848 and which lasted until it was replaced by Roebling's permanent, double deck bridge. The bridge shown by Köllner is a much more substantial structure than was actually built, for Köllner made his drawing before the bridge was complete, guessing at how the finished structure would look.


218. George Dember. "Map of Niagara River or the Straits between the Lakes Erie and Ontario by Geo. Dember 60th Reg'mt." From E.B. O'Callaghan's The Documentary History of the State of New York. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., 1849. 8 1/4 x 17. Lithograph by Richard H. Pease, Albany. Dow: 856.

A facsimile of a 1759 map, published in Volume II of O'Callaghan's Documentary History in both the first edition of 1849 and the second of 1850. The only difference of the two editions is that--because the first edition volume was smaller than the second--the first edition map was folded up at the bottom as well as accordion style, whereas the second edition was folded only accordion style.


218ad. "The Great Railway Suspension Bridge. Being The Connection Link In The American Chain Of Railways From The Atlantic & The Mississippi." New York: Charles Magnus & Co., ca. 1849. 6 5/8 x 8. Steel engraving. On Bristol board. Hand colored, and with black painted borders and gold lines.

A separately issued souvenir print issued by the prolific print publishing firm of Charles Magnus & Co.. This is another example of Magnus's 'deluxe prints,' three other examples of which are listed in Impressions [285-287]. This print was issued shortly after the opening of the Suspension Bridge to be sold to tourists visiting this technological marvel.


219. Frederick K. Knight. "Queenston & Lewiston Suspension Bridge. (The Largest in the World!!!) Designed and Built by Edward W. Serrell Civil Engineer 1850." New York: Serrell & Perkins, 1850. Variant state without publisher's information. 14 1/8 x 22 3/8. Tinted lithograph by Serrell & Perkins. Eland: 128; Greenhill: 2A; Seibel1: 59/65.

A print of the first Queenston-Lewiston Bridge, which stood from March 20, 1851 until February 1, 1864. Details about the bridge are listed at the bottom on both sides of the title. This example lacks the publisher information which appears in the example illustrated in Greenhill: 2A.


Prints from John H. Hinton's The History And Topography Of The United States of America. London & New York: John Tallis & Co., 1850. Steel engravings.

These prints were struck from the same plates as used for the original Hinton prints [100, 101], but with decorative embellishments added in the margins. Seibel mistakenly attributes the Oakley image to Cole (Seibel1: 24). These prints appeared in other sources besides this edition of Hinton. The map of North America [224] from Montgomery Martin's The Illustrated Atlas, published about 1851, was first issued in this edition of Hinton.


221ad. "1. Colio (79). 2. Corvo (79). 3. Cascata del Niagara." UL: "Vol. III." UR: "Tom. 3." LL: "Dix. Pitt. St. Nat." From Borroni & Scotti's Dizionario Pittoresco Della Storia Naturale e Delle Manifatture Compilato La Ercole Marenesi. Milan, 1850. Engraving by G. Bonatti. Original hand color by A. Bognetti e C. Carti. Niagara image 4 1/4 x 5 1/4 on octavo sheet, with birds at top.


An unusual view of Niagara from an Italian natural history. The image is a fairly realistic image of the Horseshoe Falls. Primitive natives are shown along a path in the foreground while along the waterside below the falls can be seen a party of tourists, one with a parasol.


221ada. "Niagara, Horse Shoe Fall." Inset on "United States, East." London: C. Montague, ca. 1850. 10 x 8. Lithograph. Full hand color.

One of four vignettes on this map from a mid-nineteenth century British atlas. The view shows the Horseshoe Falls from the edge of Goat Island, with Terrapin Tower visible in the distance.


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