Antique Print of the Natural Bridge of Viriginia, circa 1860

Name: Antique Print of the Natural Bridge of Viriginia, circa 1860
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-11671-61
Price: 90 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1860
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 21.5 × 14 cm (8.5 × 5.5 in)
Condition: Fair. General age-related toning. Minor wear and foxing, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Virginia
Reference: BG-11671-61

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 Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia, in an original steel engraving lettered "Natural Bridge, Virginia," with W.H. Bartlett named as the draftsman at lower left and J.C. Armytage as the engraver at lower right. The sheet dates from about 1860.

The view looks from the creek bed up into the stone arch, a huge natural span of pale limestone that rises between steep rock walls, with trees along the top and thickets of foliage on both sides. Through the opening the valley can be seen beyond, and a small figure stands on a rock in the stream in the foreground, where a fallen tree trunk lies and two more figures sit on the left bank. The engraving is a toned steel plate with fine, smooth shading that gives the rock face its mass.

The Natural Bridge was one of the great sights of nineteenth-century America and a stop on the standard tour of Virginia, and Bartlett's views of American landmarks were widely engraved in this period.

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