wadsworth 2 avalanche print

in previous blogs we ... 
Another print based on a Wadsworth sketch can also be linked to this same area. 

This print is credited to Wadsworth and can be found in Theodore Dwight's, Sketches of Scenery and Manners in the United States, 1829 facing P. 68 (follow this link here).



one person on top rock on the right

labeled

Avalanches in the White Mountains

“Sketched by D. Wadsworth Esqr” 

Shows one person with hiking staff on top of a rock on the right 

Title: Avalanches in the White Mountains

Date:  1830

Artist:  Daniel Wadsworth

Lithographer:  

Publisher: 

Source: The Garland

Collection of:  Bryant Tolles

Might check with him on this about this source, The Garland, I don’t know anything about that


see what McGrath says

Avalanches in the White Mountains, 

McGrath 

Pp. 80 referring to this image Wadsworth, "probably executed the earliest known panoramic view from a White Mountain summit."


but it is not from a summit


compare with bob photo from same location if can do that




Similar print below published in …

American Penny Magazine, 1845

p. 105-106

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note in this case, two people on rock more to the left 

do this perhaps in follow footsteps text geo crawford notch, later not here now

for other descriptions crawford notch go back to Timothy Dwight, before the Willey Slide


https://www.google.com/books/edition/Travels_in_New_England_and_New_York/XENCAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=journey%20white%20mountains 

tie this view to theclio 
tie this view to theclio here. 
move the cursor around to match 


if ok from athenaeum add the wadsworth avalanche sketch 
and put it in context with his 90 ir si other known sketches, see kornhauser 
compare this wadsworth with the cole 1827 in the athenaeum
include anything said in 1827 letters to/from cole wadsworth
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There is some controversy 
I contend it is a view above the site of the Willey House looking east towards Mount Webster.

Mount Willey would be west behind us and Mount Willard would be to the left (north) 


however, McGrath puts us facing Mount Willey, facing west,


so redo the google street view, etc.

add that later, or as a separate blog


see gppts

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MUzIEJT_uPS1t7e90L2C5_BSNy-GBdsDkh-F7TXq72U/edit#slide=id.p39

slides 55-59


or if time today add those in


here are more



this google street view shows the foundation of the Willey House

bronze plaque on the stone


behind is a viewing platform said to be the rock which split the avalanche


here is the ridge above where the slide came down





not the wadsworth view in sketch or prints


those are more likely from the rock viewing platform looking east to mt.



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