Sujet

The American Falls, Niagara - from a photograph by the Stereoscopic Company, 1860. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The American Falls, Niagara - from a photograph by the Stereoscopic Company, 1860. 'Every spectator, every child, is struck with the singular deliberation, the unnatural slowness, with which the waters of Niagara take their plunge. The laws of gravitation seem suspended, and the sublimity of the tremendous gulf below seems to check the descending victim on the verge, as if it paused in awe. The best way to approach Niagara is to go up on the American shore and cross at the ferry. The descent of about two hundred feet by the staircase brings the traveller directly under the shoulder and edge of the American Fall - the most imposing scene, for a single object, that he will ever have witnessed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23B08_408

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

45,0Mo (4,8Mo) / 42,0cm x 26,8cm / 4960 x 3171 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel water spray North America waterfall arts fall art British geography color cliff cliffs century Britain newspapers press print Niagara Falls Niagara natural phenomena B&W new york state cataract tourist attraction engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white American Falls B W white and black nineteenth century tourism The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN Stereoscopic Company newspaper landscape united states Unknown 19th-century Stereoscopic Co