Antique New Mexico Landscape Print, Wagon Train Scene, Meyer 1850s

Name: Antique New Mexico Landscape Print, Wagon Train Scene, Meyer 1850s
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-135
Price: 230 USD
Availability: InStock

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€205 · dollar price at today's exchange rate

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Shipping to the United States: $51 standard, $73 express, insured and tracked.

Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 16.7 × 23.6 cm (6.6 × 9.3 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition, with light age-related toning and occasional spotting in the margins. The image remains clean and well-defined, with strong contrast and fine engraved detail. Plate mark visible.
Places: New Mexico
Reference: BG-14038-135

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 wagon train at rest in a high desert landscape, an original steel engraving of the 1850s from Meyer's Universum, lettered in German "Landschaft bei der Furth über den Read River". The sheet carries the Bibliographisches Institut imprint of Hildburghausen and a Roman-numeral page number at the upper right.

In the foreground, at the edge of a rocky rise, a group of settlers sits and stands in conversation beside two covered wagons, with pack animals and horses at the left and smoke from a campfire at the right. The ground falls away to a broad valley with a river or lake, and flat-topped mesas and eroded buttes stand across the plain. A line of low mountains lies beyond, with one snow-covered peak showing at the horizon. A small tree and ferns frame the left edge.

The earlier description places the scene in what is now New Mexico, but the river is lettered "Read River" and no state appears on the plate.

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