Answer: landscapes where used in china for illustrating or mapping out land or stories. They use landscape papper to write on which was called a "scroll" it also recorded important documents. Scrolls/landscape papper were rolled and sent to others. Landscape papper was either created by leather from animal skin or plants.
The answer is D. They are realistic and show the American West. The reason is because, well, that is what Albert Bierstadt painted. Albert was from Germany, but he made several journeys to the west and made paintings of what he saw.