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Delete Note Save Note. Buy this book Fetching prices. December 15, History. An edition of New York to Niagara, Publish Date. Subjects Description and travel. Edition Availability 1. WoodcockThe New York public library. While Caleb Boyle likely never viewed either his sitter or the bridge in person—as models for each, he used images derived from prints—it is a remarkable pairing of an internationally renowned statesman and a natural landscape formation that was closely identified with him.

Jefferson purchased the land on which the arch stands from the British crown in and owned it for the remainder of his life. He repeatedly encouraged artists, including Maria Cosway and John Trumbull, to come visit and take it up as an important subject. In the latter, Shaw paints a small figure dressed in a black field coat and hat who is cautiously crawling on his hands and knees toward the precipice.

This detail is an allusion to a description of such an experience by Jefferson in his Notes on the State of Virginia :. Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet and peep over it.

Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head ach [sic]. If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime, to be felt beyond what they are here: so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven, the rapture of the spectator is really indescribable!

While Jefferson would not appear explicitly in later images of the bridge, his complex and contentious legacy was nonetheless present throughout the remainder of the century. In the prominent Hartford, Connecticut, patron of the arts and amateur artist Daniel Wadsworth made a visit to the Natural Bridge. There he completed a small ink wash rendering that frames the bridge as a triumphal arch, a memorial to the persistence of nature Fig.

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