Southwest View of Salem N.C.

Artist/Maker
Grunewald, Gustavus ||Duval, Peter S. __Publisher
Place Made
Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States of America
Date Made
1840
Medium
ink on paper
Dimensions
LOA 20; WOA 16
Accession Number
P-311
Description
This is one of three lithographs of Salem produced by Gustavus Grunewald and printed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It depicts Salem from the southwest from what is now the West Salem and Washington Park neighborhood of Winston-Salem.

ARTIST: Gustavus Grunewald was a Moravian artist. Born in central Europe, he trained in Dresden under the important German landscape artist Caspar David Friederick. In 1833 he was accepted into the Moravian Community at Bethlehem where he taught at the Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies.

Credit Line
Wachovia Historical Society