Oil on canvas, signed and dated at lower right, inscribed on the verso "Painted. by. / G. E. Colby. / Chicago - 1884." and "P," with stamp for A. H. Abbott & Co. of Chicago to top stretcher bar, unframed.

24 x 40.25 in.

Born in Minnesota, Colby was a well regarded landscape painter in Chicago. He exhibited paintings at the Chicago Art Institute, the National Academy in New York and the Salon in Paris.

Faint craquelure; abrading to edges of canvas from frame; some paint loss in upper right quadrant; paint flaking to lower center edge and center left edge of canvas.