John Caspar Wild

John Caspar Wild

John Caspar Wild (1804-August 12 1846) was an American painter and lithographer.

Wild was born in Switzerland and arrived in the U.S. in the 1830s.

He created early city views and landscapes of Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Iowa. He specialized in hand-colored lithographs. These views, particularly the "Valley of the Mississippi Illustrated" were some of the first depictions of the American West.

Further reading

* Reps, John William, and J. C. Wild. 2006. John Caspar Wild: painter and printmaker of nineteenth-century urban America. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press. ISBN1883982553 Designed by Steve Hartman of Creativille, Inc. [http://www.creativille.net]
* Wild, J. C., and Lewis Foulk Thomas. 1948. The valley of the Mississippi: illustrated in a series of views, accompanied with historical descriptions. St. Louis, Mo: Joseph Garnier. (this is a reprint; original edition published 1841-2)


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