Posted on 04/14/2010 5:20:19 AM PDT by jay1949
Joshua Shaw was born in England in 1776 and was already noted as an artist and painter of landscapes when he came to America as a young man. In 1818, Shaw traveled down the east coast to Georgia, sketching and painting as he went, and then trekked into the mountains of Appalachia to make the journey back to his home in Philadelphia. The landscapes which resulted from that trip are the earliest such works featuring scenes in the early-American Backcountry and provide a rare glimpse into a world in which settlers had but recently put down roots.
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Beautiful.
Thank you so much for the frequent postings. I love old pictures and history stuff. This site is really well done and I’ve enjoyed every posting, this one especially.
...thanks I live in the NC mountains by the Tenn-Va border and really enjoyed the pictures
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