Engraved woodblock of the "View of Marble Canyon (from the Vermillion Cliffs)"
- Description
- This engraved woodblock of a “View of Marble Canyon (from the Vermillion Cliffs)” was prepared by the Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C.; the image was published as Figure 63 (p.180) in Report of the Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and Its Tributaries. Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution by John Wesley Powell (1834-1902). The image depicts the “Colorado River [and] the Eastern Kaibab Displacements, appearing as folds [and] faults.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- block
- Object Type
- Wood Engraving
- date made
- 1875
- publisher
- Bureau of American Ethnology
- printer
- Government Printing Office
- author
- Powell, John Wesley
- graphic artist
- Nichols, H. H.
- block maker
- V. W. & Co.
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- engraving (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 15.5 cm x 12.3 cm x 2.3 cm; 6 1/8 in x 4 13/16 in x 7/8 in
- place made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- Associated Place
- United States: New York, New York
- ID Number
- 1980.0219.1355
- catalog number
- 1980.0219.1355
- accession number
- 1980.0219
- subject
- Art
- Natural Resources
- Communications
- Science & Mathematics
- Wood Blocks for early Bureau of American Ethnology Publications, Graphic Arts Collection
- Wood Engravings, Graphic Arts Collection
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- Culture and the Arts: Graphic Arts
- Wood Blocks for early Bureau of American Ethnology Publications, Graphic Arts Collection
- Wood Engravings, Graphic Arts Collection
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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