Levee at Rapids City, Illinois

1891

Henry Peter Bosse

Associated Names
Henry Peter Bosse

Artist, American, born Germany, 1844 - 1903

The image shows a shoreline with icy water, a high horizon line, distant land, small buildings on the right, a cyanotype style with blue tones, and vegetation leading to the frozen shoreline.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2001

  • Neuzil, Mark, Views on the Mississippi: The Photographs of Henry Peter Bosse. Minneapolis, 2001.

Inscriptions

printed, lower center on support: Levee at Rapids City, Ill. / Rock Island Rapids, L. W. 1891.; upper center on support: 112.; on verso, by unknown hand, across bottom in graphite: 1416 / H. Bossee "Levee at Rapids City, Ill." 1891 From "Views on the Mississippi River" [?] Major D. Mackenzie 01416

Wikidata ID

Q64155063

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