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Woldemar Rau, after Edward Beyer

Woldemar Rau (artist): German, 1827 - 1889

Edward Beyer (artist after): American, born Germany, 1820 - 1865

Rau & Son (printer): German, active mid-19th century

View from the Peak of Otter, No. 2
Album of Virginia (portfolio)
1857: color lithograph on wove paper; image: 28.58 × 46.83 cm (11 1/4 × 18 7/16 in.); sheet: 45.09 × 63.34 cm (17 3/4 × 24 15/16 in.); Corcoran Collection; 2015.19.3615.7; Not on View

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lower left on stone: WRau.

text on stone:
Album of Virginia. / Taken from Nature by Ed. Beyer / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1857 by Ed. Beyer in the Clerks Office of the District of Virginia / Rau & Son, Lith. Dresden. / View from the Peak of Otter / Bedford County Va. No. 2.

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William W. Corcoran, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1876; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

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