A watercolor landscape of the Rocky Mountains with a river through a canyon with a couple people and mules in the foreground.

First View of the Big Colorado River

Richard H. Kern (1821-1853)

Date

1852
Medium

Transparent and opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions

Image: 7 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.
Mount: 8 13/16 x 11 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
signed l.r.: RH Kern
Verso: [not visible]
Mount, Recto:
l.c. below image in graphite: View of Upper Colorado River
Mount, Verso:
c. in graphite: 33
l.r.: Natural Cascades - Tivoli - Dec [illeg.] 29th 1850
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

2000.8
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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