2-752-653 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Petersburg Gap', 1872. Rocky landscape with trees on the South Branch of the Potomac River, West Virginia, USA: 'we suddenly turn into the cool and shadowy gorge of the Southern Gate, through which the river pours its clear-green waters into the valley'. 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. I, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1872]