2-752-338 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Schuylkill - View from Landsdowne', 1874. The River Schuylkill at Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, USA. 'From the heights of Landsdowne there is a wider scope of vision. Seated on the rustic benches, overshadowed by stately trees of almost a primeval growth, the lounger may enjoy one of the most delightful bits of river-scenery of the milder order which our country affords'. 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]