The Rocky Mountains
1866
Artist, American, born Scotland, 1807 - 1885
Publisher, American, born Prussia, 1824 - 1906

Artwork overview
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Medium
steel engraving in black with chine collé on paperboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 42.7 × 70.8 cm (16 13/16 × 27 7/8 in.)
plate: 66.04 × 90.49 cm (26 × 35 5/8 in.)
sheet: 75.57 × 100.97 cm (29 3/4 × 39 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.3586
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Bibliography
1991
Anderson, Nancy K., and Linda S. Ferber. Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1990, pp. 272-273, fig. 80.
Inscriptions
lower right in plate: ABierstadt 1863
text at bottom on plate:
Painted by A. Bierstadt. / Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1866, by Edward Bierstadt. In the Clerks Office of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. / Engraved by J. Smillie.
Wikidata ID
Q77012668