Devil's Gate, Missouri
- 1853
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 10.9 x 12.9 cm (4 5/16 x 5 1/16 in.)
- Medium or Technique
- Brush and wash over graphite on paper
Elk Horn River Ferry, 1853
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 16.3 x 25.7 cm (6 7/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
- Medium or Technique
- Graphite with brush and wash on paper
Independence Rock, Wyoming
- 1853
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 10.7 x 16.6 cm (4 1/4 x 6 9/16 in.)
- Medium or Technique
- Brush and brown wash over graphite on paper
* Images are from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The following is scanned from Ancestry.com message Board:
Frederick Piercy was born 27 Jan 1830. He was the eighth of nine
children of George and Deborah Adams Piercy of Portsea, Hampshire,
England. By the time he was twenty-three, Piercy was already an
accomplished artist, specializing in both portraits and landscapes.
Piercy joined the Church of the Latter Day Saints in 1848, and in 1849
was married to Angelina Hawkins.
On February 5, 1853, Piercy, along with about 300 other immigrants, set sail from Liverpool on the Jersey, bound for the port of New Orleans, and eventually to Salt Lake City. This journey resulted in the publication of the illustrated travel book, "Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley". It was first published in fifteen monthly parts from July 1854 to September 1855 to encourage British Mormons to emigrate to Utah. Piercy skillfully sketched immigration in the American West; his works and writings are most often used to represent the time period.
On February 5, 1853, Piercy, along with about 300 other immigrants, set sail from Liverpool on the Jersey, bound for the port of New Orleans, and eventually to Salt Lake City. This journey resulted in the publication of the illustrated travel book, "Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley". It was first published in fifteen monthly parts from July 1854 to September 1855 to encourage British Mormons to emigrate to Utah. Piercy skillfully sketched immigration in the American West; his works and writings are most often used to represent the time period.
With due respect, this is Frederick Piercy (1830-1891). It is his son whose name is Frederick Hawkins Piercy (1857-1920), the sculptor, who used his mother's maiden name of Hawkins.
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