Catalog of Pictures, 1910, 1929 [page 10]

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in graphite: 10

heading in green ink: A Waterfall.

It is impossible to commend too highly this beautiful production of art, for nothing ever came from the pencil of the painter, more faithful to nature, or more perfect in its mechanism and general arrangement. The composition of this superb picture exhibits on the left, a lofty rocky hill partially covered with verdure, and crowned with a cluster of trees of varied foliage, above the tops of which appears the spire of a neighboring village church; through a ravine in the same hill rushes a volume of water which falls in a foaming cataract into a channel beneath, along which it rolls in rapid eddies toward the left, and gurgles amidst stones over a great portion of the fore-ground. A high band, of a broken form, on which lie the trunks of three tress, makes the boundary of the stream



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