Antique California Landscape Print, Mt Shasta & Sacramento River View 1861

Name: Antique California Landscape Print, Mt Shasta & Sacramento River View 1861
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-169
Price: 300 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 age-related toning and light spotting, mainly in the margins. Small binding holes visible in the lower border. Image remains clean with strong detail. Plate mark visible.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: California
Reference: BG-14038-169

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

The main mountain passage of the upper Sacramento or Pit River in northern California, with Mount Shasta in the distance, an original steel engraving from the Pacific Railroad Surveys, issued in Washington, D.C. around 1860 to 1861. The plate title reads "Portion of the Main Mountain Passage of the Upper Sacramento or Pitt River", and the top lettering gives "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 41st Parallel" and "Expl. by Lieut. Beckwith, Vol. II".

A solitary pine stands on a rocky ledge in the left foreground, with cliffs falling away beneath it to the river, which winds through rapids at the lower right. Beyond, ridge after ridge of dark forested mountains recedes into haze, and the snow-covered cone of Mount Shasta rises above them near the center, with an even line of distant ridges behind.

The plate was drawn by F.W. Egloffstein and engraved by C. Schumann, and the lower right carries the imprint of Selmar Siebert's Engraving and Printing Establishment in Washington. Egloffstein was a topographer on the Pacific Railroad Surveys, which examined routes across the West for the federal government in the 1850s.

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