“The Falls of Niagara”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

词条

The Falls of Niagara

释义

See also
References

{{more sources|date=June 2018}}{{Infobox artwork/wikidata|year={{circa}} 1825}}The Falls of Niagara is a c.1825 painting by Edward Hicks. It is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^[1]

Although Hicks had personally visited Niagara Falls in 1819 this picture was based on a previous depiction of the Falls by Henry Schenck Tanner on an 1822 map of North America. The view is from the Canadian side and includes traditional North American images of moose, beaver, rattlesnake and eagle. On the wide border of the picture are inscribed extracts from a poem, The Foresters, by Alexander Wilson.

It reads (clockwise from left):

With uproar hideous first the Falls appear
The stunning tumult thundering on the ear.
Above, below, where'er the astonished eye
Turns to behold, new opening wonders lie,
This great overwhelming work of awful Time
In all its dread magnificence sublime
Rises on our view amid a crashing roar
That bids us kneel, and Times great God adore.

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11080|title=Edward Hicks - The Falls of Niagara - The Met|publisher=}}

3 : 1825 paintings|Paintings by Edward Hicks|Paintings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

随便看

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。

See also

References