Sacramento City California – Antique Gold Rush Port Steel Engraving, ca.1850

Name: Sacramento City California – Antique Gold Rush Port Steel Engraving, ca.1850
Brand: Meyer
SKU: BG-14038-125
Price: 435 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1850
Maker: Meyer
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 14.4 × 23.7 cm (5.7 × 9.3 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition for its age with light age toning and scattered minor spotting mainly visible in the margins. Plate mark visible. Paper remains stable and well preserved.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: California
Reference: BG-14038-125

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

Sacramento City in the early Gold Rush years, an original steel engraving from Meyers Universum, published by the Bibliographisches Institut in Germany around 1850. The plate is printed in black and lettered below the image "Sacramento-City in Californien."

The view looks across the Sacramento River to the levee. Sailing ships with tall masts and a paddle-wheel steamer lie moored along the waterfront, with small boats among them, and the bank is crowded with cargo, wagons and figures. Beyond, a broad street runs inland between low wooden buildings and warehouses, with tents at the left edge and tall trees scattered through the settlement, and the distant Sierra foothills appear along the horizon.

Sacramento was the main supply point for the gold fields after the discovery of gold in California in 1848. Steamboats and sailing vessels carried goods and passengers up from San Francisco Bay to its levee, and this plate shows the town while it was still new and largely wooden.

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