In the Sierras by Albert Bierstadt, 1868 Size:16x20in (40x50cm) Boston Harbor

Boston Harbor

The map has been wonderfully handcoloured

including the extensive coastline

landmarks and studios are also dotted around this map

is not included on the map

In the Sierras by Albert Bierstadt, 1868 Size:16x20in (40x50cm) Boston HarborAlbert Bierstadts In the Sierras (1868) invites you into the luminous calm of the Sierra Nevada at the height of American Romanticism. Painted in oil on canvas, the scene is composed with a serenity that belies its grandeur: a mirror still alpine lake set beneath soaring granite peaks, light pooling like liquid gold across sky and water. Bierstadtan American painter born in Germanywas famed for transforming the American West into visions of the