2-752-515 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Cleopatra's Needle, Devil's Lake, Wisconsin', 1874. Rock formation in Wisconsin, USA. 'Cleopatra's Needle is another of the curious monuments of Nature's freaks...it is an isolated column of rock, nearly sixty feet high, piercing a surrounding bosket at a point where the cliffs are sheer to the bosom of the lake'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]