Antique California Landscape Print, Madelin Pass & Sacramento River, 1861

Name: Antique California Landscape Print, Madelin Pass & Sacramento River, 1861
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-164
Price: 345 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1861
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 20.8 × 30 cm (8.2 × 11.8 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition with typical age-related toning and light spotting to the margins. Image area remains clean and well-defined. Paper shows minor wear consistent with age. Plate mark visible. Overall strong and attractive impression.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: California
Reference: BG-14038-164

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

West End of Madelin Pass, a view over Madelin Creek toward the Sacramento River in northern California, an original steel engraving from the Pacific Railroad Surveys, issued in Washington, D.C. around 1861. The sheet is lettered at the top "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 41st Parallel" and "Expl. by Lieut. Beckwith, Vol. II", and the imprint of Selmar Siebert's Engraving and Printing Establishment, Washington, D.C., appears at the lower right.

The plate title is followed by the note of the moment of drawing: June 26th at 8 A.M., from a peak overlooking Madelin Creek. A line beneath reads "Sacramento River stretching through Round Valley in the distance". The view looks down a valley whose creek winds through the foreground, across rolling ridges layered into the haze, to a far snow-capped peak on the horizon. A large tree at the right frames the scene, and a lone surveyor stands on the slope beneath it, giving the scale of the land.

The survey followed the 41st parallel under Lieutenant Edward G. Beckwith as part of the government's search for a transcontinental railroad route. The credit line names C. Schumann after F.W. Egloffstein.

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