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This print appeared in the February 1751 issue of "Gentleman's Magazine." According to the Philadelphia Print Shop's extensive website concerning Charles Rand Penney's collection of prints (http://purple.niagara.edu/cam/Niagara/impressions.html#Index), this particular item is:a Hennepin derivative with modifications based upon an account by Peter Kalm, a Swedish botanist who visited Niagara Falls in 1750. A letter from Kalm to a friend in Philadelphia, was printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette, September 20, 1750. It was reprinted in Gentleman's Magazine, January 1751, as "A letter from Mr. Kalm, a gentleman of Sweden, now on his travels in America, to his friend in Philadelphia, containing a particular account of the Great Fall of Niagara, September 2, 1750." This engraving appeared in the same magazine one month later. "[Kalm] probably had nothing to do with the making of the picture..." The image of the print is based on the Popple view, with a few modifications made for artistic reasons-such as the addition of three large pine trees on the brink of Goat Island-, and a number of new features that derive from the text of Kalm's letter-including a flock of birds going over the brink of the falls, an Indian ladder down the embankment, two men crossing the river to Goat Island, and the elimination of Hennepin's third cascade.(http://purple.niagara.edu/cam/Niagara/impr18c.html)

Removed from: Publication: Gentleman's Magazine (1751) Vol. XXI, p. 18