The image is an engraved landscape of a rocky cliff with waterfalls cascading down. The perspective is from below looking up at the cliff with the waterfalls. A building, possibly a temple, is visible on the top of the cliff. The engraving uses detailed lines, cross-hatching for depth, texture, and shading. The color palette is monochromatic, using gray tones to depict light and shadow. Foliage and rocks surround the waterfalls, leading the eye up to the structure above.
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Cascades at Tivoli

George Loring Brown (American, 1814 - 1889)

1854

Medium
etching
Classification
Print
Dimensions
image: 19.69 × 13.34 cm (7 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.) ; plate: 21.91 × 15.24 cm (8 5/8 × 6 in.) ; sheet: 37.62 × 30.48 cm (14 13/16 × 12 in.)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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