Vtg Hand painted Rainbows Falls, Watkins Glen NY: 4” d plate; ENCO -Description

Description

1872
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Mark Twain Visits
He briefly describes the park in Chapter LXXVI of Roughing It:
In one place in the island of Hawaii, we saw a laced and ruffled cataract of limpid water leaping from a sheer precipice fifteen hundred feet high; but that sort of scenery finds its stanchest ally in the arithmetic rather than in spectacular effect. If one desires to be so stirred by a poem of Nature wrought in the happily commingled graces of picturesque rocks, glimpsed distances, foliage, color, shifting lights and shadows, and failing water, that the tears almost come into his eyes so potent is the charm exerted, he need not go away from America to enjoy such an experience. The Rainbow Fall, in Watkins Glen (N.Y.), on the Erie railway, is an example. It would recede into pitiable insignificance if the callous tourist drew on arithmetic on it; but left to compete for the honors simply on scenic grace and beauty–the grand, the august and the sublime being barred the contest–it could challenge the old world and the new to produce its peer.
ENCO Hand painted Rainbows Falls, Watkins Glen NY: 4” diameter plate; Vintage. Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.