Lover’s Leap

Linked to Prints and Drawings of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

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The British painter Thomas Addison Richards is well known for his romantic depictions of the southern landscape. This steel engraving of Lover's Leap, located on the Chattahoochee River two miles north of Columbus, appeared in Richards's 1842 book .

From Georgia Illustrated, by T. A. Richards and W. C. Richards

Lover’s Leap

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