[MILWAUKEE]. ELLSBURY, George H. and Vernon GREEN. Milwaukee, Wis. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Lith. & Eng. Co., 1874. "Ellsbury… portrayed his cities as seen from the ground or from a slight elevation and some distance " (Reps p.174). RARE.
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[MILWAUKEE]. ELLSBURY, George H. (1840-1900) and Vernon GREEN. Milwaukee, Wis. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Lith. & Eng. Co., 1874.
Engraving with hand-coloring, 454 x 768 mm, matted and framed. (Some surface adhesions and some soft creasing, diagonal crease lower corner.) Provenance: Library of Congress Copyright 1874 stamp lower corner.
"Ellsbury did not use the bird's-eye view perspective so popular with his contemporaries. Instead, he portrayed his cities as seen from the ground or from a slight elevation and some distance. He filled the foregrounds of these long panoramas with interesting and pictorially effective details" (Reps p.174). RARE: We trace no copy of this lithograph at auction. Reps 4383.
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