Sujet
'Yosemite Fall', 1872. Creator: Alfred Harral.
Légende
'Yosemite Fall', 1872. Waterfall in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. 'Yosemite Fall is described as grand beyond all power of expression. The summit of the upper fall is a little over two thousand six hundred feet above the valley; for fifteen hundred feet the descent is absolutely vertical, and the rock is like a wall of masonry. Before this, the fall of water sways and sweeps, yielding to the force of the fitful wind with a marvellous grace and endless variety of motion. For a moment it descends with continuous roar; in another instant it is caught, and, reversing its flight, rises upward in wreathing, eddying mists, finally fading out like a summer cloud. The full-page illustration is taken from a clump of pine-trees so near that, by the rapid foreshortening, the entire fall appears in very different proportions from those seen from the opposite side of the valley'. 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_338
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
60,5Mo (3,5Mo) / 32,6cm x 46,5cm / 3850 x 5496 (300dpi)