High Falls on the Mississippi

Painting

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Perth Museum

Name/Title

High Falls on the Mississippi

Entry/Object ID

969.9.1

Description

This romantic landscape of the Canadian school was painted in 1885 by O.R. Jacobi (1812-1901). The date and signature appears in the lower right side of the painting. The scene is a high water fall and rapids with a hunter in the left foreground stalking a pair of deer in the lower right corner. the painting is in very good condition and is in its original late Victorian frame, and extravaganza of baroque scrolls, flowers and leaves in plater and gold leaf. the gold leafing seems to be the old method of water guilding and is worn in a few spots down to a dull grey which in no way detracts from its impressive appearance.

Made/Created

Artist

Jacobi, O.R

Date made

1885

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Location

Lower Right

Dimensions

Height

40 in

Width

58-1/2 in