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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.

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.

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