The Rocky Mountains, 1866

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Medium

steel engraving in black with chine collé on paperboard

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Accession Number

2015.19.3586

Artists / Makers

James Smillie (artist) American, born Scotland, 1807 - 1885

Albert Bierstadt (artist after) American, 1830 - 1902

Edward Bierstadt (publisher) American, born Prussia, 1824 - 1906

Image Use

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Inscription

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.

Provenance

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Bibliography

1991: Anderson, Nancy K., and Linda S. Ferber. Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1990, pp. 272-273, fig. 80.