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Object Type
Museum number: 1917,1208.4301
Title: Object: View of the Cataract of Niagara, with the Country adjacent
Description: A broad waterfall, with turbulence filling the middleground and spray rising above the fall, seen across tree-covered banks in the foreground, seven figures admiring the view on the left; after Wilson. 1774 Etching and engraving
Producer name: Print made by: William Byrne; After: Richard Wilson; After: Lieutenant William Pierie; Published by: Lieutenant William Pierie; Published by: James Dodsley; Published by: Knox
School/style
Production date: 1774
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 462 millimetres; Width: 546 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Location: Not on display
Associated places: Topographic representation of: Niagara Falls
Acquisition name: Donated by: Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall; In Memory of: Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Acquisition date: 1917
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1917,1208.4301

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