Eagle Rocks Mississippi River, Antique Steel Engraving c.1850

1850 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Eagle Rocks Mississippi River, Antique Steel Engraving c.1850

Name: Eagle Rocks Mississippi River, Antique Steel Engraving c.1850
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-115
Price: 195 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1850
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 15.2 × 23.3 cm (6 × 9.2 in)
Condition: Good. In good condition overall, with light age-related toning and some minor spotting, mainly in the margins. The image remains clean and well-contrasted. Wide margins preserved.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Reference: BG-14038-115

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 Eagle Rocks on the Mississippi River, an original steel engraving of about 1850 from Meyer's Universum, lettered "The Eagle Rocks (Mississippi)". The lower margin gives the credit "Published for Herrmann Meyer" in New York and a copyright notice under the Act of Congress.

Steep bluffs rise at the left in layered rock, with a tall crag of pale stone at their summit, and a second wooded bluff stands to the right of center. A band of dense woodland runs along the base, and the ridge continues in a long line along the horizon. The river fills the foreground in a wide, still sheet engraved in fine horizontal lines, and a flat boat or raft with a low shelter lies on the water at the lower right. A tree stump and bare branches stand in the shallows at the left, and clouds drift across the sky.

The plate shows a stretch of the upper Mississippi, a part of the river that the series presented to European readers.

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