Description
A painted desert landscape shows a wide expanse of rocky terrain with scattered petrified logs in the foreground. Distant pale mountains rise under a light blue sky, with layered mesas and ridges across the horizon. The scene is labeled as Petrified Forest, Arizona and includes a reference to Thomas Moran. Early 1900s.
Front Text (verbatim):
79004 PETRIFIED FOREST, ARIZONA. "ON THE SANTA FE."
COPR. FRED HARVEY.
Back Text (verbatim):
FRED HARVEY
"PHOSTINT"
TRADE MARK REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.
MADE ONLY BY DETROIT PUBLISHING CO.
POST CARD
Thomas Moran is one of our greatest scenic artists and his most notable achievements are American subjects. Two of his masterpieces are hung in the National Capitol at Washington.
"Long before Noah fell adrift in the ark or Adam was, forests were growing in Arizona just as in some parts they grow today, and it befell that in the course of time they lay prostrate and over them swept the waters of an inland sea. Eons passed and the sands buried them deep; then the sea vanished and when these ancient logs were uncovered to the sight of a world that had forgotten them, the sybaritic chemistry of nature had transformed every one of them into chalcedony, topaz, carnelian, agate and amethyst."
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