Niagara Falls

Details

Continental or American School, circa 1850
Niagara Falls
indistinctly signed '. Le B ... ' (lower left)
oil on canvas
24 x 52in. (61 x 132cm.)

Provenance

Private collection, Adelaide.

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Lot Essay

A fine panorama of the Falls from the Canadian side, showing, from right to left, the Horseshoe Falls, Terrapin Tower (built 1833 and blown up in 1873) Goat Island and Bridal Veil Falls with one of the short-lived towers on Prospect Point, flying the Union flag.

For a similar view by P. Le Bihan, active c.1850 (to whom the present picture might be attributed) see J.E.Adamson, Niagara Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697-1901, Washington, DC, 1985, p.134, cat. no. 37.

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