Sujet

'Waiting for Decomposition', 1872. Creator: Frederick William Quartley.

Légende

'Waiting for Decomposition', 1872. Vultures perch on a tree covered in Spanish moss above the rotting corpse of an alligator, Florida, south eastern USA. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. I, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1872]

Date

1872

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM19F28_199

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

63,5Mo (5,0Mo) / 32,0cm x 49,7cm / 3781 x 5873 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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