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Water and waterfalls


 
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Contents

Introduction
1Water in the landscape
From the mountains to the sea
2Landscape: Rivers and streams
3Landscape: Lakes, ponds, meres, reed beds and lagoons
4Waterfalls
5Seascapes
Niagara Falls
6Hugh Lee Pattinson: Niagara Falls
7Charles Lyell on Niagara Falls (1845)
8Platt D. Babbitt: Joseph Avery at Niagara Falls (1853)
9George Stacy: Niagara Falls
10Alexander Henderson: Niagara Falls
11George Barker: Niagara Falls
12James T. Gardner: Special Report of New York State Survey on the Preservation of the Scenery of Niagara Falls, and Fourth Annual Report... (1880)
13Niagara Falls
Yosemite
14California: Yosemite: Bridalveil Fall
15California: Yosemite: Yosemite Falls
Notable waterfalls
16J.P. Doremus: Passaic Falls & Vicinity [Series]
Case studies
17Herrin Gallery: Columbia River Scenery, via The Dalles, Portland, and Astoria, Navigation Company Steamers
18John Blakemore: All Flows
Backgrounds and foregrounds
19Water as an element in studio backgrounds and foregrounds

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