The Falls of Niagara
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title:
The Falls of Niagara
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The Falls of Niagara is a c.1825 painting by Edward Hicks. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Although Hicks had personally visited Niagara Falls in 1819 this picture was based on a previous depiction of the Falls by Henry Schenck Tanner on an 1822 map of North America. The view is from the Canadian side and includes traditional North American images of moose, beaver, rattlesnake and eagle. On the wide border of the picture are inscribed extracts from a poem, The For
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Painting by Edward Hicks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falls_of_Niagara
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2024-04-07T22:50:12Z
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