Natural Bridge, 1858

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portfolio Title

Album of Virginia

Medium

color lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 28.58 × 42.7 cm (11 1/4 × 16 13/16 in.)

sheet: 45.09 × 63.34 cm (17 3/4 × 24 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Accession Number

2015.19.3615.12

Artists / Makers

Woldemar Rau (artist) German, 1827 - 1889

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

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

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Inscription

lower right on stone: WRau.

text on stone:
Album of Virginia. / Taken from Nature by Ed. Beyer / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1858 by Ed. Beyer in the Clerks Office of the District of Virginia / Rau & Son, Lith. Dresden. / Natural Bridge / Rockbridge County Va.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art