Tightrope Walker Crossing Niagara Gorge
item
- Title
- Tightrope Walker Crossing Niagara Gorge
- Date
- 1859
- Creator
- Armstrong, William
- Provenance
- Donated by Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation, June 1987
- Watercolour wash over print
- Original held in the Sigmund Samuel Collection, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
- Extent
- 50.6 x 33.1 cm
- Is Part Of
- Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection
- Niagara Parks Commission Collection
- Description
- en-CA From a watercolour, pencil on prepared ground 7 5/8 x 11 1/8 (194 x 283), in the Sigmund Samuel Collection, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto #950.61.21 Inscribed I. I. Armstong; I. r. Decr. 8/56, or 59 send this to editor of I. L. News. Blind stamp of Armstrong, Beere & Hime, Photographers & Engineers, Toronto, C. W. on lower left. Farini crossed the gorge at the site illustrated on 5 Sept 1860 and 8 Aug 1864. Blondin's crossing took place further downstream on 30 June 1859 and 8 Sept 1860.
- en-CA Colour tint by Erna Jahnke
- en-CA Research by George A. Seibel
- en-CA Work done under Government of Canada Local Initiative Grant CK1071-3-1977; Canada Works Grant 2959 EKG 1977-78
- Type
- Still Image
- Medium
- Hand colour tinted print
- Subject
- Niagara Gorge
- Niagara River - Views
- Niagara River - Lower
- Niagara Falls - Horseshoe Falls
- Niagara Falls - American Falls
- Maid of the Mist
- Art/Prints/Sketches
- Location
- Canada - Ontario
- Identifier
- http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=414520
- locator
- NPC-8
- Rights
- Public domain
- Date Created
- 2016-01-06
- Date Modified
- 2016-08-18
