Inscribed and signed at lower center outside image in brown ink: The Falls of Niagara from the upper Balcony of Brown's Hotel R.G. 27th September 1821 / This representation should, according to Rule, be divided into two Pictures as it comprises full 120 Degrees of the Circle; but I have left them undivided to shew the immense body of water which precipitates itself over the Fall.; at lower left outside image: Yards / Breadth by edge of Falls 1200 / Ditto straight line 960 / Breadth … the Islands 1950; at lower right outside image: Feet Inches / Perpendicular height of horse shoe Fall 156 " 6 / Do of American Fall (opposite) 162 " 6 / Perpendicular from Rapids to edge of Fall 57 " / From foot of Falls to Queens town 7 Miles below 101 "; verso inscribed at center in graphite: by Ralph Gore / Collection of Hon. Lady Curzon Howe / Clifton Castle, Ripon, Yorks.