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View at the Base of the Rockies
View at the Base of the Rockies
View at the Base of the Rockies

View at the Base of the Rockies

Artist (1775 - 1823)
Date1820
Dimensionsimage: 5 × 8 in. (12.7 × 20.3 cm)
frame: 15 1/4 × 18 1/4 in. (38.7 × 46.4 cm)
ClassificationsART, 2-DIMENSIONAL
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number91.29 F
DescriptionSmall, horizontal rectangular landscape; left half dominated by rocky cliffside; similar cliffs recede into background toward right; sky in top right corner; three clumps of trees in middle ground: grass & scrub in foreground; small figures scattered; everything outlined.
Collections
  • 19th Century American Art
  • Art of the American West
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