Jasper Cropsey's 1865 Painting, Starrucca Viaduct, Pennsylvania, shows a pastoral scene. In the foreground on a rock are two rustic figures, one of whom stands gazing into the distance. Between the figures and the autumnal mountains and sky in the background, behind a lake, is a viaduct across which a locomotive is passing, its white plume of smoke streaming behind it. The presence of the railroad does not disrupt the tranquillity of the scene; the machine seems rather to enhance the pastoral atmosphere. Cropsey's painting is one of the last representations of a type frequent in the middle third of the 19th Century, in which rural calm and the artifacts of the new industrial age are juxtaposed. In some, such as George Inness's The Lackawanna Valley, the juxtaposition is uneasy; in many more, however, the effects of industrialism are comfortably accommodated within the framework of the pastoral world.