Stunning View of Palouse Falls – Scenic Cascade in Washington, 1856

Name: Stunning View of Palouse Falls – Scenic Cascade in Washington, 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-72
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1856
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 28.3 × 20.7 cm (11.1 × 8.1 in)
Condition: Excellent. Preservation of tones and details, with minimal foxing. Paper remains clean and crisp.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Washington
Reference: BG-14038-72

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

Palouse Falls, a color-tinted lithograph of 1856 from the Pacific Railroad Surveys reports (heading "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys, 47th & 49th Parallels", "General Report, Plate XLI"). The plate is lettered "Peluse Falls", the period spelling, with "Stanley del." at lower left and the lithographers Sarony, Major & Knapp of New York at lower right. It is an upright sheet.

A narrow white ribbon of water drops from a flat basalt lip into a deep walled basin, throwing spray up the cliff face at the left. Columnar rock towers and ruined-looking pinnacles of lava crown the rim behind, and two figures stand on the boulders at the edge of the pool in the foreground, one holding a pole or fishing rod.

The falls are on the Palouse River in eastern Washington, then Washington Territory. The plate comes from the northern survey along the 47th and 49th parallels, which reported on the country between the Mississippi and Puget Sound for a Pacific railroad.

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