The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
Albert Bierstadt, 1863
A peak named for a dead explorer. A survey camp turned into a promised land and sold for a fortune. 1863. The country was at war. This is what escape looked like.
About this work
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is an 1863 landscape by Albert Bierstadt, based on sketches he made in 1859 while travelling with Frederick W. Lander's Honey Road Survey Party. It shows Lander's Peak in the Wyoming Range of the Rocky Mountains, with a Native American encampment in the foreground. Bierstadt, who described the Rockies as "the best material for the artist in the world", prepared his big pictures with as many as fifty sketches. He named the peak after Lander, who died in the Civil War. He exhibited the painting in 1863 at the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York, where he had a studio, and it was an immediate critical and popular success; it has often been compared with Frederic Edwin Church's The Heart of the Andes, with which it was also exhibited. It sold in 1865 for $25,000. The painting has been in The Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1907 and measures 186.7 × 306.7 cm (73½ × 120¾ in).
Sources: Wikipedia · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Print facts
- Native resolution
- 3,811 × 2,284 px
- Sharp at 150 ppi up to
- 25 × 15 in
- Sizes
- Small (20 × 12 in) · $100 · 190 ppi
Medium (24 × 14 in) · $150 · 159 ppi
Large (36 × 22 in) · $300 · 104 ppi - Price includes
- Frame and US shipping · 14–21 days · 30-day returns
FAQ
Where can I buy a framed print of The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak?
Here. The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is available as a framed print in three sizes: Small (20 × 12 in) for $100, Medium (24 × 14 in) for $150 and Large (36 × 22 in) for $300. Prices include the frame and US shipping; delivery takes 14–21 days, with 30-day returns.
What size works best for The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak?
The file is 3,811 × 2,284 px. Medium (24 × 14 in) is the largest size that prints at 150 ppi or more (159 ppi), the sharpest choice for close viewing; Large (36 × 22 in) prints at 104 ppi, fine from a few feet away but softer up close.
Is it legal to print The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak?
Yes. The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak is in the public domain: its copyright, if it ever had one, expired long ago. In the United States a faithful photograph of a public-domain painting does not create a new copyright (Bridgeman v. Corel, 1999), so the image can be printed and sold freely.
