1856 · Views & Engravings
Pioneer Scene: Awaiting the Return of Mr. Tinkham in the American West, 1856
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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
- Reference
- BG-14038-58
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.
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About this piece
A camp awaiting the return of a surveyor, an original tinted lithograph after John Mix Stanley, issued in 1856. The caption reads "Awaiting the Return of Mr. Tinkham", with "Stanley Del." at lower left and "Sarony, Major & Knapp Lithg., 449 Broadway N.Y." at lower right. The header reads "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys, 47th & 49th Parallels" and the sheet is numbered General Report, Plate XXXIII.
Two small tents stand at the left and right of an open camp, with a cooking fire at the center and hide stretched on a frame beside it. Men and women stand and sit about the fire, and a few dry sticks lie in the foreground. Behind them a plain stretches away to pale, rounded mountains, under a sky of long, thin clouds. The tints are soft sand, gray and peach.
Abiel Tinkham was one of the engineers of the northern survey. The 47th and 49th parallels route was the northern survey led by Isaac Ingalls Stevens, governor of Washington Territory, and the plates after Stanley and Sohon record country that was then little known to the eastern public. The plate comes from Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
