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From the flat top of striated, sheer rocks, we look down onto a person rowing a canoe toward us in a river in this horizontal black and white photograph. The rocky banks funnel the river, which comes toward us, like a canal. Evergreen trees are spiky silhouettes against a cloudy, pale sky. Printed text at the bottom left of the photograph reads, “At the Mouth of Cold Water Canyon, Dells of the Wisconsin. Copyright by Henry H. Bennett.”
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From the flat top of striated, sheer rocks, we look down onto a person rowing a canoe toward us in a river in this horizontal black and white photograph. The rocky banks funnel the river, which comes toward us, like a canal. Evergreen trees are spiky silhouettes against a cloudy, pale sky. Printed text at the bottom left of the photograph reads, “At the Mouth of Cold Water Canyon, Dells of the Wisconsin. Copyright by Henry H. Bennett.”

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

At the Mouth of Cold Water Canyon, Dells of the Wisconsin

Henry Hamilton Bennett

Date
c. 1900
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 18.9 × 24 cm (7 7/16 × 9 7/16 in.) sheet: 18.9 × 24.6 cm (7 7/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2023.30.24
Credit line
Gift of the UBS Art Collection
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CPH
Original NGA record

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • gelatin silver print
  • Boat
  • Nature
  • Environment
  • Wisconsin
  • landscape
Provenance

Paul Katz, North Bennington, VT; Paine Webber & Co., New York, 27 December 1992; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Inscription

bottom left printed in black ink: At the Mouth of Cold Water Canon, Dells of the Wisconsin. / Copyright by Henry H. Bennett; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 049878

NGA object ID 226776. 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.