Art Institute of Chicago

Camp Beauty, Canñon de Chelle; walls 1.200 feet high, width of Cañon at this point about one fourth of a mile. This view shows the perpendicular effect wrought by the action of floods. The Artist of the Expedition, Mr. Wyant, of New York, made a study of this scene with the intention to paint it as a characteristic Canon view, No. 25 from the series "Geographical Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian"

Timothy O'Sullivan (American, born Ireland, 1840–1882)LinkedCulture matchlcp-f778926c861a

Date: 1873
Medium: Albumen print, stereo
Culture: United States
Department: Photography and Media
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 210777

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