El Capitan / L. Prang & Co., Boston. – 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 El Capitan / L. Prang & Co., Boston.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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El Capitan / L. Prang & Co., Boston.
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El Capitan, the granite monolith rising above the floor of Yosemite Valley, is the subject here, rendered in color by Louis Prang's Boston firm around 1871. The chromolithograph was issued as the first number of "Prang's Gems of American Scenery," a series that brought western landscapes to eastern parlors at a time when few Americans had seen them firsthand. Yosemite had been set aside by Congress as a protected grant in 1864, and images like this one helped make the valley's sheer cliffs a national symbol of the American landscape.
| Created / published | c1871. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Landscape prints 1870-1880.Chromolithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | C1934c U.S. Copyright Office. Prang's gems of American scenery. No. 1. |
| Subjects | Mountains--California--1870-1880. El Capitan (Calif.)--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,156 × 1,458 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217080 |
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