This print is based on the short story “The Domain of Arnheim” by Edgar Allan Poe, in which a man inherits a vast sum of money and builds an earthly paradise accessible by a long boat ride. This scene comes near the end of the story, when the voyager on the boat encounters a plateau covered in honeysuckle and towering trees. As the story discusses the meaning and experience of beauty, it is possible that this image is Peets’s vision of the picturesque.
