The Falls of Niagara - photo 1
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The Falls of Niagara

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16.06.2023 16:00UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Lot 32 | The Falls of Niagara
The Falls of Niagara
J.P. Cockburn, 1833
COCKBURN, James Pattison (1779-1847). [The Falls of Niagara. London: Ackermann & Co., 1833-34.]

A complete set of Cockburn's Niagara views, the most famous prints of a 19th-century artist in Canada. “After 1820, artists captured Niagara’s scenic diversity by creating a set of four or more different views. For the most part these multiple images were conceived as prints, either published as a series or as illustrations in a gift book. … [A] set of six Niagara images published abroad in the 1830s – the series of aquatint engravings after watercolor compositions by the English soldier-artist James Pattison Cockburn … helped familiarize European audiences with the iconography of the Falls” (J.E. Adamson, Niagara Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes, 1697-1901, Corcoran Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, Washington, DC, 1985). The set was reprinted in 1857. Each print includes the series title, dedication to King William IV, and publisher’s imprint. They are subtitled as follows:
1. "This View of Table Rock & Horse-Shoe-Fall." Engraved by C. Hunt.
2. "The General View above the English Ferry." Engraved by J. Edge.
3. "This View of the Horse-Shoe-Fall, from below Goat Island." Engraved by C. Hunt.
4. "This View from the Upper Bank, English Side." Engraved by C. Hunt.
5. "This View of the American Fall, from Goat Island." Engraved by C. Bentley.
6. "This View of the Horse Shoe Fall, from Goat Island." Engraved by C. Hunt.

Broadsheet folio (720 x 530mm). Comprising six hand-colored aquatints (some expert restoration to margins, reinforcement or repairs encroaching printed area in plates 3 & 6). Paper watermarked 1821-1834. Modern full morocco gilt to style.Cockburn, James Patterson
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