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Mountain valley with river and pine forest landscape – Historic Reproduction

Mountain valley with river and pine forest landscape — historic image
Mountain valley with river and pine forest landscape. Historic image from the Animals collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic image captures Mountain valley with river and pine forest landscape in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Mountain valley with river and pine forest landscape

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Mountain valley, river, and pine forest: the title gives the whole scene, with a river running through a valley and dark pines climbing the slopes. Landscapes of this kind were especially popular in the 19th century, when many artists and photographers turned to wild, uninhabited country as a subject. Mountain valleys with rivers and conifers often stood for the grandeur and quiet of nature, and the pine forest and water usually lead the eye deep into the scene. The record does not name a maker or a specific location, so the picture is best understood through the broader tradition of landscape views it belongs to.

Original scan8,670 × 6,223 px · prints to 29 × 21 in at 300 dpi
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