Lost Mountains in the Great Basin with Desert Flora - Mohane, California, 1856

Name: Lost Mountains in the Great Basin with Desert Flora - Mohane, California, 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-74
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)
Condition: Excellent. Preservation with minimal signs of aging. Colors remain vibrant, and the paper shows only light foxing around the edges.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: California
Reference: BG-14038-74

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

Lost Mountains in the Great Basin, a color-tinted lithograph of 1856 from the Pacific Railroad Surveys reports, numbered "Plate IX" with the heading "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys" at the top. The plate is lettered "Lost Mountains in the Great Basin" beneath the image.

Tall, spindly Joshua trees dominate the foreground, one at the left with long bare limbs ending in tufts of leaves and a group of slimmer ones at the right. A figure rests in the shade beneath the left tree while a laden pack animal stands beside it, and a second figure walks the middle ground among scattered scrub and prickly pear. Low, isolated hills float on the hazy horizon beyond a pale desert floor.

The Mohave desert country shown here lay in southern California, on the survey's route toward the Pacific, and the Joshua tree was one of the plants the expedition naturalists recorded there.

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