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The image shows a view titled "Blue Sulphur Spring" from Greenbrier County, Virginia. The landscape features rolling hills, trees, buildings, and a horse-drawn carriage on a dirt road. In the center, there is a grove of trees with structures. The style appears to be a lithograph with smooth lines and blended colors in earthy tones.
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The image shows a view titled "Blue Sulphur Spring" from Greenbrier County, Virginia. The landscape features rolling hills, trees, buildings, and a horse-drawn carriage on a dirt road. In the center, there is a grove of trees with structures. The style appears to be a lithograph with smooth lines and blended colors in earthy tones.

National Gallery of Art · Print

Blue Sulphur Spring

after Edward Beyer

Date
1857
Medium
color lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 26.35 × 46.04 cm (10 3/8 × 18 1/8 in.) sheet: 45.09 × 63.34 cm (17 3/4 × 24 15/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2015.19.3615.30
Credit line
Corcoran Collection
Time span
1851 to 1875
Department
CG-W
Original NGA record Wikidata

Portfolio and series

Portfolio
Album of Virginia

Subjects and terms

  • American
  • Landscape
  • lithograph
  • Trees
  • Mountains
  • Houses
  • Fence
  • Carriage
  • Figures
  • landscape
Provenance

William W. Corcoran, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1876; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Inscription

text on stone: Album of Virginia. / Taken from Nature by Ed. Beyer / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1857 by Ed. Beyer in the Clerks Office of the District of Virginia / Lith. Anst. v. W. Loeillot in Berlin. / Blue Sulphur Spring. / Greenbrier County Va.

NGA object ID 212736. 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.