A hand-colored steel engraving of "The Halt in a Valley, South America": a party of riders resting with their horses in a valley below great rock walls, under a stormy sky. Signed within the plate mark "A. Bierstadt, pinxt" and "A. Willmore, sculpt".
A hand-colored steel engraving of "The Halt in a Valley, South America": a party of riders resting with their horses in a valley below great rock walls, under a stormy sky. Signed within the plate mark "A. Bierstadt, pinxt" and "A. Willmore, sculpt".
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), a leading figure of the Hudson River School, was the great painter of the monumental American landscape; Arthur Willmore (1814-1888) rendered many of his compositions in steel for the illustrated London editions of Virtue & Co.
Medium: steel engraving, hand-colored
Artist / after: Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)
Engraver: Arthur Willmore (1814-1888)
Publisher: Virtue & Co., London
Date: 1875
Dimensions: 12.6 x 8.8 in (32 x 22.3 cm)
Condition: good; clean paper and fresh color