Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Mountain landscape.
Call Number
E Row 1/GC059/Box 32/Oversize/19th c../Artist Bierstadt, Albert GA 2006.02574
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc1544c2829
Publisher
1858.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1858
Extent
1 item ; sheet 34 x 47 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Princeton University Class of 1915.
References
IAN 83:008
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Oil paint on paper, mounted on board
Inscribed: "Albert Bierstadt 1830-1902 Mountain Landscape 1858" "Mount Sneffels San Juan Range of Colorado according to Jolen L.J. Hart".
Inscribed on frame, verso: "This [oil] sketch is the best of a series sold at Gimbel's New York, in 1944".
Inscribed on frame, verso: This painting is on thin oil-paper, such as one might use in the field. It has thumb-tack marks in the upper corners and has only recently been mounted on card. J. M[onroe. T[horington].
Provenance: Formerly in the collection of the Library of The American Alpine Club, presented by J. Monroe Thorington, 1944 [label on verso of frame].
Inscribed in pencil, frame verso: "Mount Sneffels, San Juan Range of Colorado, according to John L. J. Hart".

Discovery Information

Subject
Landscapes—United States—1858
Landscapes—Colorado—1858
Mountains—Colorado—In art
Natural landscapes—Colorado—1858
Americana—West (U.S.).
Landscapes—Southwestern States—1858

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fff2bfff-f622-43b3-bbf1-e667e8cb905f/manifest