Scenic View of the Rio Colorado Near Mojave Villages, Historical Encounter, 1856

Name: Scenic View of the Rio Colorado Near Mojave Villages, Historical Encounter, 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-35
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1856
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
Condition: Good. Condition summary: The piece is in very good condition, with minimal toning and light foxing along the edges, typical of prints of this age.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Arizona, California
Reference: BG-14038-35

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

The Colorado River near the Mojave villages, an original tinted lithograph from the Pacific Railroad Surveys, issued in 1856. The caption reads "Rio Colorado near the Mojave Villages, View No. 1, from the left bank looking W. N. W." The header reads "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys, 35th Parallel" and the lithographer's credit at lower right is Sarony, Major & Knapp of New York.

Members of the survey party crowd the sandy bank at the right, among them uniformed men and several Mojave men and women standing and seated, with baggage at their feet. A line stretches across the broad, shallow river to a small boat in midstream, while groups of men gather on the far bank and a larger craft is moored at the left. Low hills and a wooded shoreline close the horizon, in soft browns and grays.

The sheet records the crossing of the Colorado by the 35th parallel survey under Lieutenant Whipple, in the territory of the Mojave people. It 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.

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