The City of Detroit, View from Canadian Shore – Antique Harbor Engraving, c.1872

Name: The City of Detroit, View from Canadian Shore – Antique Harbor Engraving, c.1872
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14129-19
Price: 325 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1872
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 23.3 × 31.6 cm (9.2 × 12.4 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition. Light age toning and scattered foxing, primarily in the margins. The engraved image remains clear and well-defined. A visible plate mark is present. No major tears or losses observed.
Period: The Gilded Age
Places: Michigan
Reference: BG-14129-19

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

Detroit seen across the river from the Canadian shore, an original steel engraving published in London by Cassell, Petter and Galpin, c.1872. The plate title "The City of Detroit" is lettered in script, with "(From Canada Shore)" beneath it.

A grassy slope with pines and low shrubs fills the foreground, where two cows graze and a figure stands near the water. Beyond it, the river opens into a wide, calm reach. Schooners and other sailing vessels lie at anchor or sail across it, with a large ship at the right edge, and a paddle steamer is seen faintly in the distance. The low line of the city's rooftops, with a few church spires, stretches along the far bank under a broad sky of building clouds.

Detroit stands on the river that links Lake Erie with Lake St. Clair, and this view across to the American side shows it as a lake port of the early 1870s. Cassell issued plates of this kind for readers in Britain who wanted to see the cities of the United States and Canada.

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