A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch) (1839)
Thomas Cole
Oil on Canvas. American, Romantic.
American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I [A-L]
Crawford Notch, a deep valley in New Hampshire's White Mountains, gained notoriety in 1826 when nine lives were lost in a catastrophic avalanche nearby. Cole's painting depicts the site of an earlier…