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372 JAMES D. SMILLIE (after Albert Bierstadt)
The Rocky Mountains (Lander’s Peak)
.
Engraving on
Chine collé
on sturdy, cream wove paper, 1865-66. 655x910 mm; 25
3
/
4
x32
inches (sheet), wide margins. Signed by Smillie in pencil, lower right. A superb, richly-
inked impression with strong contrasts.
This monumental engraving shows a Native American encampment at the foot of the
Rocky Mountains where Bierstadt traveled in 1859 on a western expedition led by US
Army Colonel FrederickW. Lander (1821-1862). Bierstadt created the celebrated painting
(now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork) on which this engraving was based