Landscape; single-sided
0.140- 0.142 mm
Wove, machine-made, smooth surface, cream colored paper. Partial watermark centrally located "Hackeray Hotels.. ndon" with an image of a rose at the center. On the PL side of verso (originally the top of the support) two grey embossed letter pressed text read "Kinglsey Hotel, Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London", "Telegrams, Bookcraft, London. Telephone, 4253 Gerrard". Same paper as 1316.884.
"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."
Notes in the artist's hand; Inscribed by hand in pencil, "After Turner." in lower right on recto; Inscribed in print in ink, "TELEGRAMS, BLOOMCRAFT, LONDON. TELEPHONE [text obscured] GERRARD." in upper right on verso; Inscribed in print in ink, "KINGSLEY HOTEL, HART STREET, BLOOMSBURY SQUARE, LONDON." in lower right on verso
Signed by hand in pencil, "T.M. 1906" in lower right on recto
