Sale 2477 - Old Master Through Modern Prints, May 8, 2018

315 c ALBERT BIERSTADT (after) The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak . Steel engraving, 1866. 430x700 mm; 17x27 1 / 2 inches, full margins. Signed by Bierstadt in pencil, lower right. 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)