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Item Details
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| Author: |
Prang, Louis, publisher |
| Title: |
[Chromolithograph of Yosemite Valley, after the painting by Thomas Hill] |
| Place: |
Boston |
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| Date: |
c.1870 |
| Item # : |
214521 |
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| Sale Number |
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433 |
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241 |
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| Fine Americana: The Library of Andrew Griffin; with the Collection of Calvin P. Otto, Part II |
| Sale Date |
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07/22/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 2400 |
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| Description: |
| Chromolithograph on canvas. 39x66 cm. (15½x26"), on original wooden stretcher, in later wooden frame; overall 51x79 cm. (20x31"). |
| Louis Prang's reduced publication of Thomas Hill's painting of Yosemite Valley, which was his first truly large scale work and widely considered to be his first major painting. A piece of cardboard has been tacked to the back of the stretcher to protect the canvas, obscuring most of the original label. Freeman p.189. |
| Condition: |
| small indent in sky portion, near fine. |
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