One of the best-known depictions of the falls is Asher Durand's "Kindred Spirits" (1849), a stylized rendition. It eulogized the recently deceased Thomas Cole by depicting him and William Cullen Bryant standing on Fawn's Leap [http://www.eastman.org/fm/st05/htmlsrc/m198187750035_ful.html[http://www.thomascolville.com/catalogue/hill_jw/index.htm] looking out over a landscape that synthesized the falls and parts of the surrounding clove, including Haines Falls, into a landscape that, while visually striking, is really an imagined view of the falls. Prior to the painting's execution, during 1836, Bryant had complemented Cole's visualizations with versification when he wrote "Catterskill Falls", which described a wintertime encounter: