2-752-503 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Walls of the Grand Cañon', 1874. A waterfall in the Grand Canyon, carved out by the Colorado River and its tributaries in Utah and Arizona, USA. 'At various places the chasm is cleft through the primal granite rock to the depth of twenty-eight hundred feet...the chasm is narrow, the walls rugged, broken, and precipitous, and the navigation of the river dangerous'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]