Grand Canon of the Colorado and River
Collection: Landscapes
Title
Grand Canon of the Colorado and River
Subject
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Description
On verso:
No. 241. GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO AND RIVER.
Stolid indeed is lie who can front the awful scene and view its unearthly splendor of color and form without quaking knee or tremulous breath. An inferno, swathed in soft celestial fires; a whole chaotic under-world, just emptied of primeval floods and waiting for a new creative world; eluding all sense of perspective or dimension, defeating the faculty of measurement, putting in a maze all apprehension of limit; a terrible thing, unflinchingly real, yet spectral as a dream. The beholder is at first unimpressed by any detail; he is overwhelmed by the whole of the stupendous panorama, a thousand square miles in extent, that lies wholly beneath the eye, as if he stood upon a mountain peak instead of upon the level brink of a fearful chasm in the plateau, whose opposite shore is thirteen miles away. The Grand Canon is a labyrinth of huge architectural forms, endlessly varied in design, fretted with ornamental devices, festooned with lace-like webs formed of crumblings from the cliffs above and painted with every color known in pure, transparent tones of marvelous delicacy.
A8523
Creator
Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)
Source
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Publisher
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Date
ca. 1890-1900
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Stereographs
Identifier
241
Citation
Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward), “Grand Canon of the Colorado and River,” Digital Canton, accessed December 3, 2024, https://canton.digitalsckls.info/item/787.
Original Format
Stereograph
Physical Dimensions
7 x 3.5 inches
Title
Grand Canon of the Colorado and River
Subject
Grand Canyon (Ariz.)
Description
On verso:
No. 241. GRAND CANON OF THE COLORADO AND RIVER.
Stolid indeed is lie who can front the awful scene and view its unearthly splendor of color and form without quaking knee or tremulous breath. An inferno, swathed in soft celestial fires; a whole chaotic under-world, just emptied of primeval floods and waiting for a new creative world; eluding all sense of perspective or dimension, defeating the faculty of measurement, putting in a maze all apprehension of limit; a terrible thing, unflinchingly real, yet spectral as a dream. The beholder is at first unimpressed by any detail; he is overwhelmed by the whole of the stupendous panorama, a thousand square miles in extent, that lies wholly beneath the eye, as if he stood upon a mountain peak instead of upon the level brink of a fearful chasm in the plateau, whose opposite shore is thirteen miles away. The Grand Canon is a labyrinth of huge architectural forms, endlessly varied in design, fretted with ornamental devices, festooned with lace-like webs formed of crumblings from the cliffs above and painted with every color known in pure, transparent tones of marvelous delicacy.
A8523
Creator
Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)
Source
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Publisher
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Date
ca. 1890-1900
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Stereographs
Identifier
241
Citation
Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward), “Grand Canon of the Colorado and River,” Digital Canton, accessed December 3, 2024, https://canton.digitalsckls.info/item/787.Original Format
Stereograph
Physical Dimensions
7 x 3.5 inches