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Title: Views of the Profile Mountain and the Profile Rock, or the "old man of the mountain," at Franconia, New Hampshire, on two plates, with descriptive letterpress
Creator: Sprague, Isaac, 1811-1895, artist
Dickinson, Samuel N. (Samuel Nelson), 1801-1848, printer
J.H. Bufford's Lith., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1847
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a pair of views of Profile Mountain (or Cannon Mountain) at Franconia, New Hampshire, bound with letterpress descriptive text; mountain landscape view (plate 1) and profile views of the rock resembling "old man of the mountain" (plate 2).
"Boston: S.N. Dickinson, Printer, 52 Washington Street. 1847. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1847, by William Oakes, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Price one dollar."--text, bottom center, cover. "Drawn by I. Sprague."--text, bottom left margin of each plate. "J.H. Bufford's Lith."--text, bottom right margin of each plate.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 42.23 x 31.91 cm (16 5/8 x 12 9/16 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_VIEW_004016
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3908
Language: English
Subject: Cannon Mountain (N.H.)--Pictorial works
Landscapes--Pictorial works
Mountains--Pictorial works
Lithographs--1825-1850. (gmgpc)
Views. (gmgpc)
Place: Franconia (N.H.)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
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