The Great West Illustrated in a Series of Photographic Views Across the Continent

1869

Andrew Joseph Russell

Artist, American, 1829 - 1902

Union Pacific Railroad

Publisher

Andrew Joseph Russell

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume of 50 albumen prints

  • Credit Line

    Avalon Fund and New Century Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (closed): 34 × 49 × 3.8 cm (13 3/8 × 19 5/16 × 1 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.155.1.1-50

Associated Artworks

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Plate 1. Carmichael's Cut, Granite Canon

Andrew Joseph Russell, Union Pacific Railroad

1869

Plate 2. Granite Canon, from the Water Tank

Union Pacific Railroad, Andrew Joseph Russell

1869

Plate 3. Granite Rock, near Beaufort Station

Andrew Joseph Russell, Union Pacific Railroad

1869

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Stephen Loewentheil, Brooklyn, NY); NGA purchase, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

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