The Falls of Niagara.: View of Table Rock & Horse-Shoe-Fall, by C. Hunt; General View above the English Ferry, by J. Edge; The Horse-Shoe-Fall, from below Goat-Island (American Side.), by C. Hunt; View from the Upper Bank, English Side, by C. Hunt; View of the American Fall, from Goat Island, by C. Bentley; and The Horse-Shoe Fall, from Goat Island, by C. Hunt

'THESE PRINTS ARE THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL THOSE CREATED BY ARTISTS ACTIVE IN CANADA IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY'

'In 1833 a double series of outstanding aquatints was published: six landscapes of Quebec City and six views of Niagara Falls. These prints are the most famous of all those created by artists active in Canada in the nineteenth century, because they are unrivalled in terms of complexity and difficulty and were made by one of the few military artists to have had a professional art career.' (R. Villeneuve, Lord Dalhousie: Patron and Collector, Ottawa, 2008, p.74)

‘After 1820, artists captured Niagara’s scenic diversity by creating a set of four or more different views. For the most part these multiple images were conceived as prints, either published as a series or as ilustrations in a giftbook. … [A] set of six Niagara images published abroad in the 1830s – the series of aquatint engravings after watercolor compositions by the English soldier-artist James Pattison Cockburn … - helped familiarize European audiences with the iconography of the Falls.’ J.E. Adamson, Niagara Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697-1901 (Corcoran Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue), Washington, DC, 1985, pp.37-8). The set was reprinted in 1857.