Snow-Capped San Francisco Mountain in the Heart of Arizona - Tinted Litho, 1856

Name: Snow-Capped San Francisco Mountain in the Heart of Arizona - Tinted Litho, 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-37
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1856
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
Condition: Good. Condition summary: Very good overall, with light toning typical of its age. The image remains crisp and vivid.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Arizona
Reference: BG-14038-37

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

San Francisco Mountain in northern Arizona, an original tinted lithograph from the Pacific Railroad Surveys, issued in 1856. The caption reads "San Francisco Mountain", with the lithographer's credit "Lith. of Sarony & Co. New York" at lower right.

Two snow-capped peaks rise above a dark, forested slope on the right, with a second, smaller pair of white summits behind them at the left. In the foreground, pines weighed down with snow stand in an open clearing, a few tents are pitched among the trees at the center, and drifts of snow cover the ground. The printing is in cool grays with pale tints.

The San Francisco Mountains, near present-day Flagstaff, were a landmark on the 35th parallel route surveyed under Lieutenant Whipple. This view was published in 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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