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John Casper Wild (1804-1846)
Second Presbyterian Church, ca. 1840, lithograph Collection of the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis |
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| John Caspar Wild was born in Switzerland but moved to the United States
in the 1830’s. He lived in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Louis and
Davenport, Iowa. He specialized in hand-colored lithographs but was also
an expert painter. He produced some of the first urban landscapes of cities
in the American West, including St. Louis. These landscapes are valuable
historical records of America’s early cities as they depict their
pre-industrialized character. His works chronicled the developments of westward expansion and in their time, serving as a visual narrative that helped merchants and travelers in the East find homes in the West. |
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