[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from May 24 (reply #55).

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

Frederic Edwin Church Wikipedia page. I don’t know exactly which landscape Strong saw. Maybe this one.

Here is an 1857 painting by Louis Remy Mignon .

[Tax-chick]

Pretty pictures by Mr. Church, but neither the Andes of Ecuador nor the Valley of Mexico (if that’s what the other painting is, with the horseman) is particularly “sultry.”