Distant view of the Rocky Mountains / S. Seymour, delt. ; I. Clark, sculpt. – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Distant view of the Rocky Mountains / S. Seymour, delt. ; I. Clark, sculpt. comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Distant view of the Rocky Mountains / S. Seymour, delt. ; I. Clark, sculpt.
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Drawn on the plains rather than conjured from secondhand reports, this engraving shows the Rocky Mountains as a faint line on the far horizon. Samuel Seymour, an artist on Stephen H. Long's 1819 and 1820 expedition, made the original sketch, and I. Clark cut the plate for the account compiled by Edwin James, the expedition's botanist and geologist. The book was published in Philadelphia in 1822 and 1823 and gave many eastern readers one of their first pictorial views of the western mountains. Notice how distant the range looks, a reminder of how far off the peaks seemed to travelers crossing open grassland.
| Created / published | 1823 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1820-1830.Landscapes (Representations) 1820-1830.Engravings 1820-1830. |
| Notes | Title from item. Illus. in: Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains : performed in the years 1819 and '20,.../ compiled by Edwin James, botanist and geologist for the expedition... Philadelphia : H.C. Carey and I. Lea, 1822-23. |
| Subjects | Long, Stephen Harriman,--1784-1864--Travel--United States--West. Expeditions & surveys--United States--West--1820-1830. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,037 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110579 |
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