"Brick Kilns," Clay Bluffs 1900 Miles above St. Louis
1832
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28.3 × 36.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-136821
By the action of water, or other power, the country seems to have been graded away; leaving occasionally a solitary mound or bluff, rising in a conical form to the height of two or three hundred feet, generally pointed or rounded at the top, and in some places grouped together in great numbers . . . the sides of these conical bluffs (which are composed of strata of different coloured clays), are …
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1832 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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