St Louis Court House Antique Print, Missouri Architecture View c.1850

Name: St Louis Court House Antique Print, Missouri Architecture View c.1850
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-172
Price: 270 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1850
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 14.6 × 23.9 cm (5.7 × 9.4 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition with age-related toning and scattered foxing, mainly in the margins. The image remains clean and well-defined with strong detail. Minor paper wear consistent with age.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Missouri
Reference: BG-14038-172

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 Court House in St. Louis, an original steel engraving of about 1850 lettered "The Court-House in St. Louis". The sheet is printed in black on cream paper, with small publisher's credit lines at the lower corners.

The building is seen from across a street corner, a cruciform neoclassical block with a pedimented Ionic portico of tall columns and a tall central dome with a lantern and slender finial. Around it the street is full of mid-century life: a carriage and a pair of horses with a cab, a rider on horseback, women in wide skirts and men in top hats, children and a small dog in the foreground. A tall tree at the left and part of a building at the left edge frame the view, and blocks of houses stand behind the courthouse on the right.

This is the courthouse on Fourth Street, the building later associated with the Dred Scott case.

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