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The image depicts a frozen waterfall seen from a slightly elevated viewpoint. The wooden-framed scene showcases cascading icicles and frozen formations in the foreground, with a row of barren trees and some buildings visible against a pale sky in the background. The color palette is muted and monochromatic, primarily white, gray, and black, capturing the cold winter landscape. The differing textures of the smooth water's surface and rough icicles are notable.
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The image depicts a frozen waterfall seen from a slightly elevated viewpoint. The wooden-framed scene showcases cascading icicles and frozen formations in the foreground, with a row of barren trees and some buildings visible against a pale sky in the background. The color palette is muted and monochromatic, primarily white, gray, and black, capturing the cold winter landscape. The differing textures of the smooth water's surface and rough icicles are notable.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

American Falls from Luna Island

Platt D. Babbitt

Date
1870s
Medium
glass transparency
Dimensions
image: 23.5 × 19.1 cm (9 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.) framed: 32.3 × 27.2 × 2.6 cm (12 11/16 × 10 11/16 × 1 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2017.69.1
Credit line
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CPH
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • New York
  • Niagara Falls
  • landscape
Provenance

(Larry Gottheim, Yonkers, NY); NGA purchase, 2017.

NGA object ID 210224. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.