[3] After the attack against Montreal, he surveyed the surrounding region from 1760 to 1766 and painted six waterfalls, including this one of Niagara Falls.

His later work, A New Discovery of a Vast Country (1697), included the first image of the falls based on his description and not done on site.

[1][7] These paintings were then shown as part of a major exhibition devoted to Davies, 2 July – 4 September 1972, at the National Gallery of Canada.

The landscape has red and orange colours as the forest leaves change from green in the fall.

[11] Davies inscribed scientific notes about the falls and the landscape at the bottom of the work:[1] Done on the Spot by Thomas Davies Capt Royal Artillery The Perpendicular height of the Fall 162 feet Breadth about a Mile & Quarter The Variety of Colours in the Woods shews the true Nature of the Country J. Fougeron produced a handcoloured engraving of this work, published in Davies's Six Views of North American Waterfalls (c. 1763–1768).