Lot Essay
‘Prints of the Falls were also published in pairs after 1825. Among the most prominent examples are compositions by James Hamilton, Robert Havell and Hippolyte Sebron in 1852.’ (J.E. Adamson, Niagara Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697-1901 (Corcoran Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue), Washington, DC, 1985, p.40).