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The Pueblo del Walpe (also known as Walpi) is a Native American village, built hundreds of years ago on top of a large rock formation (butte). The village, when visited by the explorer John Wesley Powell in 1869 and in later years by the artist of this work, had about 150 inhabitants. There were two other villages close by on the same butte. Powell described Walpe as follows: ‘The top of the butte is of naked rock, and it rises from 300 to 400 feet above the sand plains below by a precipitous cliff on every side. To reach it from below, it must be climbed by niches and stairways in the rock. It is a good site for defence. All the water used in the village is derived from a well nearly a mile away.’ The work was exhibited in Bolton in 1882.
Title
Sunset, Pueblo del Walpe, Arizona
Date
1880
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 64.5 x W 54 cm
Accession number
BOLMG:1911.6
Acquisition method
gift from Lord Leverhulme, 1911
Work type
Painting