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Rekindling the wonder of Natural Bridge, once a testament to American grandeur

Rekindling the wonder of Natural Bridge, once a testament to American grandeur
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'Virginia Arcadia' at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

‘Virginia Arcadia’ at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
What’s 215 feet high, 90 feet long, and has been admired in great art and literature for centuries from Thomas Jefferson’s “Notes on the State of Virginia” to Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” to Frederic Edwin Church’s landscape paintings?
Here’s another hint: Jefferson bought it, along with 157 acres of land, from King George III of England for 20 shillings in 1774. And he owned it until he died.
The answer is Virginia’s Natural Bridge, a naturally occurring arch over 400 million years old that geologists believe was once the roof of an underground river cave. ....

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New World Wonder: How a geological oddity became an enduring symbol of the nation in American Art

New World Wonder: How a geological oddity became an enduring symbol of the nation in American Art
Christopher C. Oliver
Fig. 1.
Thomas Jefferson at Natural Bridge by Caleb Boyle (active 1800–1822), c. 1801. Oil on canvas, 92 by 60 inches.
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, Kirby Collection of Historical Paintings.
The Natural Bridge of Virginia is a 215-foottall geological formation located in the Shenandoah Valley that is the last remnant of the roof of an ancient cavern that collapsed millions of years ago. Its impressive height and unique features inspired generations of artists who visited the site, which for many eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists was relatively remote. Yet, its craggy, foresttopped visage made a familiar and frequent appearance in painting, prints, photography, and the decorative arts of the era. As one of the earliest painters to depict the site, Joshua Shaw, remarked upon his visit to the Natural Bridge in 1820: “It ....

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