Dec 10 at 12:00 PM - Sale 2689 -

Sale 2689 - Lot 222

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(AMERICAN WEST.) Albert Bierstadt; and James Smillie (engraver). The Rocky Mountains (Lander's Peak). Large hand-colored panoramic engraving of one of Bierstadt's most successful compositions, showing a Native American encampment at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. 23x32½ inches sheet size, wide margins; light mat line and foxing; Bierstadt's signature and note referencing the engraving clipped from a letter pasted to the lower margins: "the largest line work ever done in this country. New York June 20th, 1887. Sincerely yours, Albert Bierstadt". New York, 1866