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| Keywords: View on the Mississippi by Ferdinand Richardt, 1858.jpg Artwork Creator Ferdinand Richardt View on the Mississippi Fifty-Seven Miles Below St Anthony Falls Minneapolis 1858 oil on canvas cm 79 4 124 White House Washington D C United States Notes from Kloss William et al Art in the White House A Nation's Pride Washington D C The White House Historical Association 2008 <br> A sternwheeler with double smokestack hallmark of the Mississippi river steamer plies its way upstream As it approaches the narrows it closes on a large raft--almost an anachronism on the river by mid-century The raft is empty-- its 'cargo' the logs with which it was constructed It is a floating timber yard Sometime in 1856-57 Richardt traveled westward to the Mississippi where he made sketches of the river from Rock Island Illinois to St Anthony Falls at Minneapolis A scholar at the Minnesota Historical Society has suggested that View on the Mississippi depicts a spot at the head of Lake Pepin where the waters again narrow to the river channel Credit Line The White House Historical Association White House Collection The White House Historical Association PD-art Other versions http //www whitehouseresearch org/assetbank-whha/action/viewAsset id 81 PD-old-100 Ferdinand Richardt 1858 paintings Paintings in the White House 19th-century paintings of ships Riverboats of the Mississippi river system 1858 in the United States Paintings of the United States | ||||
