Brown University Artists_Albert Bierstadt A Plan of Potomack River

A Plan of Potomack River

Several unfinished pieces offered here provide some insight into his drawing process

streams of American immigrants had begun to make their way west in wagon trains

• A rare example of a manuscript based on the writing and maps of La Harpe

hand colored in outline with circular cartouche dated 1791

Brown University Artists_Albert Bierstadt A Plan of Potomack RiverRichard Rummell Brown University Re strike engraving from the original plate (c. 1913). Printed on heavy woven paper and hand colored. Plate size: 17 1 4 x 29 At the turn of the century, Littig & Company commissioned the accomplished artist Richard Rummell (1848 1924) to create watercolors of some of the nations most prestigious colleges. From these watercolors, copper plates were engraved and a limited number of pulls (engravings) were distributed.