Falling Spring, Virginia / painted by Samuel Colman ; F. Jones. – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Falling Spring, Virginia / painted by Samuel Colman ; F. Jones.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Falling Spring, Virginia / painted by Samuel Colman ; F. Jones.
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Falling Spring is a waterfall in the mountains of western Virginia, and this print turns a painter's view of it into a color lithograph. Samuel Colman, a landscape painter associated with the American scenic tradition of the mid-1800s, supplied the original picture, and the Currier & Ives firm, which was based in New York, published the reproduction around 1868. Such prints gave families who could not travel to the mountains a way to bring the scenery of the rugged interior into their parlors. Look for how the cascade is framed by rock and foliage, a typical way of presenting the picturesque to the public.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1868. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Landscape prints 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | No. 1524. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1979 |
| Subjects | Waterfalls--Virginia--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,374 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175334 |
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