Art in America; a critical and historical sketch (1880)
Benjamin, S. G. W. (Samuel Greene Wheeler), 1837-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 105
to convey a correct impression of the scene;and the work may be justly ranked with the best examples of the Ameri-can school of landscape-painting. The first fever of the California rush had subsided when the uneasyexplorer again stirred the enthusiasm of adventurous artists by… … THE YOSEMITE. [THOMAS HIEL.] to us those unrevealed wonders; and Thomas Moran, taking his lifein his hands, in the language of religious cant, aspired to capture thebouquet, the first bloom, from this newly-opened draught of inspiration.
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