Mts. Katahdin and Turner from Lake Katahdin by Frederic Edwin Church, 1860 rhode island River Ribble: Flowing through the

River Ribble: Flowing through the region

The subject is historically notable

offering a personal touch that transforms it into a one-of-a-kind piece

was designed at a half-inch to the mile scale

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Mts. Katahdin and Turner from Lake Katahdin by Frederic Edwin Church, 1860 rhode island River Ribble: Flowing through theMts. Katahdin and Turner from Lake Katahdin (1860) by Frederic Edwin Church invites the viewer into a luminous hush at the heart of Maines North Woods. A leading painter of the Hudson River School, Church balanced topographical precision with a poetic command of atmosphere, capturing a pair of mountain forms rising in layered silhouettes above a still lake. The scene breathes with Romantic feelingwilderness as both subject and symbolrendered in warm,