Cincinnati: A View from Mt. Adams c. 1875

In portraying Cincinnati’s riverfront at the zenith of the steamboat era, I’ve always tried to make a point of including, by virtue of their historic and recognizable importance, the Roebling Bridge, the Public Landing and standing as a sentinel atop just the right spot on Mt. Adams, the Church of the Immaculate Conception. These icons of the past still identify the river port as they did 140 years ago as the “Queen City of the West.”

This retrospective daytime view was conceived as one-half of a pair of companion paintings of Cincinnati. This view presenting the panorama from Mt. Adams takes in, left to right; the Newport Barracks, the Louisville and Nashville Railway Bridge, Covington Kentucky, the Church of St. Philomena, the Kentucky Hills, the Roebling Suspension Bridge, and as worshippers arrive for a service, the Church of the Immaculate Conception.

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