A thick-trunked tree towers over us in an old-growth forest in this photograph, which is printed in shades of gray on cream white. From close to the ground, we look up at the central tree, which has thick but stubby branches extending like bristles on scrub brush from its central trunk. Just to the left is an upright but dead, broken trunk. Its hollow interior faces us. The canopy of the central tree is outlined against the blank sky, and other evergreens and thinner-trunked trees reach into the sky around the central tree.
Artwork Details
- Date
- 1861
- Medium
- albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- 3834 × 5130 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original