Sale 2454 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, September 19, 2017

125 c ALBERT BIERSTADT (after) The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak . Steel engraving, 1866. 430x700 mm; 17x27 1 / 2 inches, full margins. Engraved by James D. Smillie. A very good impression of this important engraving. This monumental engraving shows a Plains Indian encampment at the foot of the Rocky Mountains where Bierstadt traveled in 1859 on an expedition led by Colonel Frederick W. Lander. Bierstadt created the painting (now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) that this engraving was based on four years after the expedition, following the