Antique Utah Landscape Print, Weber Canyon & Great Salt Lake Valley, 1861

Name: Antique Utah Landscape Print, Weber Canyon & Great Salt Lake Valley, 1861
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-165
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-14038-165

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

Weber Lower Cañon in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, an original steel engraving from the Pacific Railroad Surveys, issued 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 printer's imprint is that of Selmar Siebert's Engraving and Printing Establishment, Washington.

The title is followed by the details of the drawing: April 5th at 2 P.M., from an island in Weber River, Valley of Great Salt Lake, with "Wasatch Mountains" noted beneath. A small party of riders on horseback crosses the valley floor at the center, dwarfed by steep, snow-streaked mountains that close in from both sides and narrow toward the gap of the canyon. Low shrubs and scattered stones fill the foreground, with the river visible at the left and right edges.

The view was drawn by F.W. Egloffstein and engraved by C. Schumann. The survey along the 41st parallel, under Lieutenant Edward G. Beckwith, was one of several expeditions sent to find a practicable railroad route to the Pacific.

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