Landscape (still adhered to secondary support)
Primary and secondary supports remain adhered; tertiary support: 0.387- 0.388 mm
Primary support is machine-made, wove, smooth surface, light cream in color. Attached to a secondary support at the four corners, which is minimally larger in size. The secondary support is a fragment of a magazine/newspaper page; machine-made, light cream in color and contains a portion of a printed engraving (“The Peutelsteiner chasm, Near Ampezo, in the Tyrol. “is printed beneath the engraving). The tertiary support is a machine-made, calendared surface, commercial board, beige in color (cooler and more pink in tone that the first two supports).
"Thomas Moran, landscape painter, etcher, engraver, lithographer. Born February 12, 1837, at Bolton Lancashire (England) accompanied his family to Maryland in 1844, and studied painting with his brother Edward in Philadelphia during the mid-1850. In 1862 the two Moran’s' went to England for further study and came under the influence of Turner. Thomas visited Europe again in the same decade and several times in the later years. His fame rests largely on his large paintings of scenes in the Far West, including Yellowstone Park, Yosemite, and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. His home was in Philadelphia until 1872 when he moved to Newark (N.J.) and shortly after to NYC. In 1916 he moved to Santa Barbara (Cal.) where he died on August 26, 1926."
