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The image shows a wide river cutting through the landscape, with a rocky shoreline extending into the distance. Along the shoreline, there are a few buildings and telephone poles scattered. In the background, low, rolling hills rise to meet the sky. The image has a monochromatic cyanotype palette, casting everything in shades of blue. The brushstrokes of waves along the river are smooth, creating a tranquil scene.
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The image shows a wide river cutting through the landscape, with a rocky shoreline extending into the distance. Along the shoreline, there are a few buildings and telephone poles scattered. In the background, low, rolling hills rise to meet the sky. The image has a monochromatic cyanotype palette, casting everything in shades of blue. The brushstrokes of waves along the river are smooth, creating a tranquil scene.

National Gallery of Art · Photograph

Bad Axe, Wis.

Henry Peter Bosse

Date
1885
Medium
cyanotype
Dimensions
image: 26.6 × 33.3 cm (10 1/2 × 13 1/8 in.) sheet: 36.6 × 43.7 cm (14 7/16 × 17 3/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Accession number
2012.138.14
Credit line
Gift of Betsy S. Aubrey and E. Steve Lichtenberg, MD
Time span
1876 to 1900
Department
CPH
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • cyanotype
  • Mississippi River
  • Wisconsin
  • landscape
Provenance

Major A. Mackenzie, United States Army Corps of Engineers [d. 1921], Washington, DC. Mike Conner, Washington, DC, 1990; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 16 October 1990, no. 67). Betsy S. Aubrey and E. Steve Lichtenberg, MD, San Francisco (through the Simon Lowinsky Gallery, New York), 1992; gift to NGA, 2012.

Inscription

upper center, in black ink: 101; lower center: Bad Axe, Wis. 1885.

NGA object ID 160667. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.