Views & Engravings
Striking Geological Illustration of a Conical Hill in the Laguna Colorado Valley
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€220 · dollar price at today's exchange rate
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- Kind
- Views & Engravings
- Size
- 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
- Reference
- BG-14038-44
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.
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About this piece
A conical hill in the valley of Laguna Colorado, an original tinted lithograph from the Pacific Railroad Surveys. The caption reads "A Conical Hill, 500 Feet High, Standing in the Valley of Laguna Colorado". The header reads "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys, 35th Parallel" and the sheet is marked Geological Report, with "T. Sinclair's lith. Phila." at lower right.
The hill fills the center of the sheet, a symmetrical cone built of horizontal layers of buff and brown rock, with a band of pale white rock around its middle and sharp erosion channels running down its lower slope. Dark trees crown the summit and cluster along the base, large boulders lie in the foreground, and pale cliffs rise on both sides behind it. The tints are warm browns and greens with a pale sky.
The plate was drawn to show the stratification of the hill for the geological volume of the 35th parallel survey, led by Lieutenant Whipple. It 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.
