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Print, Castle Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park
This is a Print. It was after Thomas Moran and published by L. Prang and Company, Boston. It is dated 1874 and we acquired it in 1941. Its medium is chromolithograph on white wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
Capitalizing on the fascination with the West that led to Yellowstone’s designation as a National Park, Louis Prang commissioned a deluxe set of fifteen color lithographs of the most dramatic locations in the region, based on graphite drawings Moran executed in 1871. Published with a text by F. V. Hayden, the portfolio included maps, rail routes, and geologic information such as elevations in the park, the height of the eruptions, and the mineral composition of the water. Respected artists would often be identified with a particular region due to the proliferation of images they would produce. Yellowstone became so identified with Thomas Moran that he adopted it as a middle name, incorporating the “Y” into his monogram.
Wall Label from exhibition, "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape," Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, NY.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Louis R. Ehrich.
Its dimensions are
Sheet: 24.5 x 35.3 cm (9 5/8 x 13 7/8 in.) Frame: 39.7 x 50.2 cm (15 5/8 x 19 3/4 in.)
It is signed
Signed with Moran's cipher at lower left.
It is inscribed
Printed: at lower left with title; at bottom center with copyright date: and at lower right: Prang's / American Chromos / Boston.
Cite this object as
Print, Castle Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park; After Thomas Moran (American, b. Britain, 1837–1926); Published by L. Prang and Company, Boston (United States); USA; chromolithograph on white wove paper; Sheet: 24.5 x 35.3 cm (9 5/8 x 13 7/8 in.) Frame: 39.7 x 50.2 cm (15 5/8 x 19 3/4 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Louis R. Ehrich; 1941-9-1
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Frederic Church, Winslow Homer & Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape.
