Lithograph of the Great Basin from the Summit of Tejon Pass, California, 1856

Name: Lithograph of the Great Basin from the Summit of Tejon Pass, California, 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-13
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1856
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: California
Reference: BG-14038-13

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 Great Basin seen from the summit of the Tejon Pass, an original tinted lithograph from the Pacific Railroad Surveys, issued in 1856. The caption reads "Great Basin from the Summit of Tejon Pass". The header reads "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys, Cal." and the sheet is numbered Geology Plate V.

From a bare, grassy summit the view drops away between two ridges to a broad, hazy plain, with a faint line of distant mountains on the horizon beneath a warm yellow sky. A group of riders and pack animals moves across the open ground in the foreground, with a dead tree and a few shrubs at the left. The soft buff, green and gray tints give the scene its pale, atmospheric light.

The plate was drawn for the geological reports of the California survey, which examined the passes between the San Joaquin Valley and the desert country to the east. It was published in Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

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