Scenic Tinted Lithograph of California’s Mountains Near Canada de las Uvas, 1856

Name: Scenic Tinted Lithograph of California’s Mountains Near Canada de las Uvas, 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-1
Price: 245 USD
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Date: 1856
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
Condition: Excellent. With minimal age-related toning and no significant marks or blemishes. Edges are crisp, and the image remains vibrant.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: California
Reference: BG-14038-1

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

Mountains Near the Entrance of the Canada de las Uvas, a tinted lithograph of 1856 from the Pacific Railroad Surveys, the government reports of explorations for a railroad route from the Mississippi to the Pacific. The legend at the upper left reads "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys," the plate number VII appears at the upper right, the draftsman is credited at the lower left and the lithographer at the lower right, and the title is lettered below the image.

The view looks across a wide, empty plain to a long range of bare, rounded hills, drawn in soft shades of buff and gray. A few low mounds and huts stand in the middle distance, a lone rider crosses the plain, and in the foreground two figures with staffs rest on a bank of dry ground. The sheet gives a sense of the scale of the country the survey parties crossed, with almost no trees or settlements.

The Canada de las Uvas, the Cañada de las Uvas or Grape Vine Canyon, lies in the mountains south of the San Joaquin Valley in California, on the approaches to the Tejon Pass, where several of the survey parties examined passes through the Coast Ranges.

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