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Maker(s):Bartlett, William Henry; Currier, Nathaniel (lithographer)
Culture:British (1809-1854); American (1813-1888)
Title:Falls of Niagara, from Clifton House
Date Made:n.r.
Type:Print
Materials:colored lithograph
Measurements:Sheet: 10 1/16 in x 14 1/8 in; 25.6 cm x 35.9 cm; Image: 8 1/16 in x 12 1/2 in ; 20.5 cm x 31.8 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1947.94
Credit Line:Bequest of Frank G. Nelson (Class of 1873)
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
Nathaniel Currier copied this image from William Henry Bartlett’s engraved view that appeared in American Scenery, published in London and New York in 1840. Prints such as this one suggest multiple hands at work. First, Bartlett made a wash drawing based on earlier drawings. Someone else copied the wash drawing on a metal plate, and a third person carried out the engraving. The plate was then inked and printed by others.

A decade after its original publication, the lithographic publisher Nathaniel Currier decided to copy it. So another draftsman copied the image onto limestone, and the printer inked the stone and printed the image that was then colored.
Georgia Barnhill, 2014

After William Henry Bartlett. The view of Niagara Falls appeared in Nathaniel P. Willis, American Scenery, published in London in 1840.

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