Major-General James Pattison Cockburn C.1779-1849 THE HORSESHOE FALLS OF NIAGARA, CANADA extensively signed and inscribed verso; Tell me what a plate executed in the style of / Turner's studiorum [sic] engraved by Charles Turner / or any other clever artist would come to / ? of the studiorum [sic], as I should like to pub / lish some falls of Niagara and other cascades / in that style - let me know when you write / J. C. / don't show this drawing to anyone till you / put it into a frame / Niagara is pronounced long & signifies in the Indian language / the wonder of the waters - / Remains in this drawing / there is no liberty, the old tree are there - you stand immediately over the falls and can hardly hear any / person speaking to you, so loud is / the uproar of the falling water - / the English or Horse Shoe falls of Niagara / from Goat Island / Jas: Cockburn / 1828 / 155 feet high and / 2200 feet broad - / american f[alls] of Nir is 165 high / 1100 broad / Goat Island between / the falls is about 1100 ft long / and a few feet higher than either fall brown wash over pencil, heightened with scratching out 34.5 by 52.8 cm.; 131/2 by 20 3/4 in.
Major-General James Pattison Cockburn C.1779-1849 THE HORSESHOE FALLS OF NIAGARA, CANADA extensively signed and inscribed verso; Tell me what a plate executed in the style of / Turner's studiorum [sic] engraved by Charles Turner / or any other clever artist would come to / ? of the studiorum [sic], as I should like to pub / lish some falls of Niagara and other cascades / in that style - let me know when you write / J. C. / don't show this drawing to anyone till you / put it into a frame / Niagara is pronounced long & signifies in the Indian language / the wonder of the waters - / Remains in this drawing / there is no liberty, the old tree are there - you stand immediately over the falls and can hardly hear any / person speaking to you, so loud is / the uproar of the falling water - / the English or Horse Shoe falls of Niagara / from Goat Island / Jas: Cockburn / 1828 / 155 feet high and / 2200 feet broad - / american f[alls] of Nir is 165 high / 1100 broad / Goat Island between / the falls is about 1100 ft long / and a few feet higher than either fall brown wash over pencil, heightened with scratching out 34.5 by 52.8 cm.; 131/2 by 20 3/4 in.
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