Antique Utah Canyon Print, Weber River & Sheep Rock Canyon View, 1861

Name: Antique Utah Canyon Print, Weber River & Sheep Rock Canyon View, 1861
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-166
Price: 315 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1861
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 21.5 × 28 cm (8.5 × 11 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: Utah
Reference: BG-14038-166

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 Second or Sheeprock Cañon of Weber River in Utah, an original steel engraving from the Pacific Railroad Surveys, printed in Washington, D.C. around 1860 to 1861. The top lettering reads "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys 41st Parallel" and "Expl. by Lieut. Beckwith, Vol. II", and the plate title reads "Second or Sheeprock Cañon of Weber River" with a note of the time and place of drawing beneath.

A pack train of mounted men and loaded horses picks its way across a rocky slope in the foreground, with a second party at the right edge by the river. At the left a tall pinnacle of layered rock, which gives the canyon its name, rises above a steep talus slope. The river bends away between walls of rock into the distance, where rounded hills lie under a sky of drifting cloud.

The view was drawn by F.W. Egloffstein and engraved by C. Schumann. The survey along the 41st parallel, led by Lieutenant Edward G. Beckwith, was one of several expeditions sent to find a practicable railroad route to the Pacific, and its plates are among the earliest printed views of the interior West.

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