BIERSTADT, Albert (1830-1902).
The Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie.
Chromolithograph, Printer's Proof.
London: McLean, 1868.
21 5/8" x 34 7/8" sheet, 28 1/2" x 39 1/2" framed.

Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) was the nineteenth century chronicler par excellence of the American West. He undertook several trips to the Rocky Mountains and Yosemite Valley, where he made sketches of what would later become his most famous paintings. These brilliant chromolithographs brilliantly capture the American landscape painting of the period at its most heightened and rapturous. These chromolithographs were issued by Thomas McLean as a pair [The Rocky Mountains (Landers Peak) & The Storm in The Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie]. As many as 20 stones were used to capture the rich, sumptuous palette of the original painting, which now resides in the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

(Nancy Anderson and Linda S. Ferber, Albert Bierstadt Art & Enterprise, pp. 274-275).