City of Milwaukee, Panoramic Urban View – American City Engraving, 1872

Name: City of Milwaukee, Panoramic Urban View – American City Engraving, 1872
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14129-18
Price: 345 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1872
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 23.3 × 31.6 cm (9.2 × 12.4 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition. Light overall age toning and scattered foxing, primarily in the margins. The engraved image remains clear and well-defined. A visible plate mark is present. No major tears or losses observed.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Wisconsin
Reference: BG-14129-18

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

Milwaukee seen over the trees from a wooded rise, an original steel engraving published in New York by D. Appleton and Co. The plate title "City of Milwaukee" is lettered in script below the image, and a copyright line dated 1872 is engraved in the margin.

Dense, finely worked foliage fills the foreground and the sloping ground below, with a low garden pavilion at the lower center. Beyond the treetops the city spreads across the middle distance, with the towers of several churches and larger public buildings rising among the rooftops. At the horizon a flat sheet of water, Lake Michigan, runs behind the skyline under a large bank of cumulus cloud.

The plate is credited in the old description to A. C. Warren, drawn, and R. Hinshelwood, engraved. It belongs to a series of American city views by Appleton that presented Midwestern towns to readers elsewhere in the country, and shows Milwaukee in the years of its rapid growth on the lake.

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