Item 187: Photograph by Unknown of an Oil Painting titled, “Delaware River,” by Gustavus Johann Grunewald , ca. 1860
Item — Box: 22, Folder: 10
Dates
- Created: ca. 1860
Creator
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Photograph
Condition Note:
Good.
Measurements:
10 in. x 8 1/16 in.
Title:
Delaware River
Description:
This is a photograph by an unknown artist of an oil painting depicting the Delaware River.
The Delaware River is located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is the longest free-flowing river on the east coast that spans from New York to Delaware at 282 miles long. Its branches, the West Branch at Mount Jefferson in Jefferson, Schoharie County, and the East Branch at Grand Gorge, Delaware County, join in the Catskill Mountains of New York. These branches form the Delaware River in Hancock, New York and eventually empties into the Delaware Bay. It is referred to as the “Lifeblood of the Northeast” and provides drinking water to about 17 million people.
It was painted by Gustavus Grunewald. According to Valley Views of Northeastern Pennsylvania by Gilbert S. McClintock, “Railroad bridge in middle distance not completed until 1855.”
Gustavus Johann Grunewald was born in Gnadau, Germany in 1805. He studied with Caspar David Friedrich at the Dresden Academy. Before immigrating to the United States, he worked in a porcelain factory. He moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and taught drawing and painting from 1836 to 1866 at the Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies. He later returned to Prussia and traveled throughout the Pocono Mountains and sketched from nature. He exhibited his work at the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Artists’ Fund Society, and many more. He died in 1878.
Location:
Delaware River
Creator
Repository Details
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570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu