November 10, 2010

George Catlin's Bird's Eye View

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Now I knew George Catlin did some bird's eye views, but I did not realize he also did some Bird's Eye Views. This is one of the latter, an 18-inch gouache from 1827, Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls.

He got it pretty close, too. Did he use a map or something?

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art | google | posted by greg at November 10, 2010 10:43 AM