Spectacular View of Valley La Cuesta, Rio Pecos - 19th Century Lithograph

Name: Spectacular View of Valley La Cuesta, Rio Pecos - 19th Century Lithograph
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-41
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Shipping to the United States: $51 standard, $73 express, insured and tracked.

Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
Condition: Good. Condition summary: Excellent condition with vibrant colors and minimal age-related wear. Light toning around the edges adds to its vintage charm.
Places: New Mexico
Reference: BG-14038-41

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 valley of La Cuesta on the Pecos River, an original chromolithograph from the Pacific Railroad Surveys. The caption reads "Valley of La Cuesta, Rio Pecos", with the artist's credit "B. B. Möllhausen" at lower left and "Lith. by A. Hoen & Co. Balto." at lower right. The header reads "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys, 35th Parallel".

Two men in white shirts stand on a rocky promontory in the foreground, looking down into a broad valley. A winding river threads through irrigated fields marked off by low walls, bluffs of pale and brown rock close in on both sides, and beyond them stands a range of blue mountains. The soft greens, golds and blues are printed in several colors from separate stones.

The Pecos valley was crossed by the 35th parallel survey under Lieutenant Whipple on its way west from Fort Smith, and Balduin Möllhausen was the expedition's artist. 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.

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