Expansive View of the Plains Between Kah-Wee-Ya and Kings Rivers, 1856

Name: Expansive View of the Plains Between Kah-Wee-Ya and Kings Rivers, 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-73
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1856
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: California
Reference: BG-14038-73

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

Plain between Kah-wee-ya and Kings Rivers, a color-tinted lithograph of 1856 from the Pacific Railroad Surveys reports. The sheet is lettered "Plain between Kar-wee-ya and Kings Rivers" beneath the image, with the draftsman's credit at lower left and a Baltimore lithographer's imprint at lower right.

A rounded hill rises in the center of the view, its crest marked by a tiny cairn or post, and two seated figures, one wearing a broad hat, rest on the slope in the lower left. Beyond them a wide plain runs to a distant blue range under heavy, billowing clouds, and a lone horseman looks out across a gully at the right.

The scene is in the southern San Joaquin Valley country of California, between rivers that drain the Sierra Nevada. The plate was made for the Pacific Railroad reports, which recorded the western ends of the proposed routes as well as the plains and deserts crossed on the way.

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