2-752-505 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Sunset, Lake Michigan', 1874. Sailing ships on Lake Michigan, one of the five Great Lakes of North America. Michigan is the only one of the lakes which is located entirely within the USA. The states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan all border its shores. 'If you leave Chicago in the evening, you may see one of the lake-sunsets of which so much is heard - a sunset in which the sun descends behind rolling banks of clouds, shedding the most gorgeous hues on the sky and on the sea'. 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]