# Niagara Falls by Moonlight, in Drawings

Frederic Edwin Church painted this (probably 1856), aged about 25. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> By the time Frederic E. Church executed this study of the Canadian side of Horseshoe Falls, Niagara Falls was already an icon of both American art and the American nation.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: probably 1856
- Medium: graphite and white gouache
- Dimensions: Sheet: 11.6 x 16.4 cm (4 9/16 x 6 7/16 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1976.30
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Frederic Edwin Church](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/frederic-edwin-church), American, 1826–1900

Church studied with Thomas Cole in the Catskills and became the most celebrated American landscape painter of the mid-nineteenth century.

8 works in the collection.

## Walk on

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