Native Californians Lassoing a Bear, Hand-Colored Americana Print, 1853

Name: Native Californians Lassoing a Bear, Hand-Colored Americana Print, 1853
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14302-23
Price: 380 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1853
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 24.6 × 33.3 cm (9.7 × 13.1 in)
Condition: Good. Condition consistent with age. General age toning, scattered foxing, and some staining visible in the margins. Minor handling wear and light creasing. The image remains clear and attractive with surviving original hand coloring.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: California
Reference: BG-14302-23

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

Three mounted men confront a charging grizzly in an original hand-colored engraving titled "Native Californians Lassoing a Bear". The scene was drawn by F.O.C. Darley and engraved by Francis Hall, and the sheet was published in New York by D. Appleton & Co. in 1853, as the lettering beneath the image records.

The action is set in open woodland of bare, twisted trees. At the left a rider in a broad hat leans from a gray horse with a long weapon in hand. The bear rears toward the center with its mouth open while a second rider on a brown horse turns in the saddle toward it. At the right the third man, hat on his head, swings his lasso overhead. The coloring is soft, in greens, browns and gray, with a lighter ground behind the figures.

Darley was one of the leading American illustrators of the nineteenth century, and the California grizzly, later the state symbol, was a favorite subject of early images of the West.

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