An Engraved and Hand-colored View of Ohiopyle Falls in Pennsylvania, ca.1800

Name: An Engraved and Hand-coloured View of Ohiopyle Falls in Pennsylvania, ca.1800
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13600-40
Price: 215 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1800
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 12.5 × 21 cm (4.9 × 8.3 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition and strong paper. Later hand-clouring. The edges have blue inkt, but outside the image. Study the images carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Pennsylvania
Reference: BG-13600-40

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

A View of Ohiopyle Falls in Pennsylvania, an original copper engraving of about 1800 with later hand color. The plate title, "A View of Ohiopyle Falls in Pennsylvania," is engraved in italic script beneath the image. The maker and the book it was issued in are not named on the sheet.

The view looks across the broad, rippling pool at the foot of the falls to the low, wide cascade where the Youghiogheny River drops over a rock ledge. Dense woods close in on both banks, a dark outcrop of rock fills the foreground, and a pale sky with a single large cloud stands over the treeline. Two small figures, one in red and one in blue, stand on the grassy bank at the lower right and give the scene its scale.

Ohiopyle lies on the Youghiogheny in southwestern Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands, and the falls were a natural wonder of the Allegheny country that early travel books and magazines were glad to illustrate. The plain, sober engraving and the date of about 1800 place the sheet among the earliest printed views of the site.

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