The Rocky Mountains, Western Frontier Landscape – Antique Engraving, ca.1873

1873 · Views & Engravings

The Rocky Mountains, Western Frontier Landscape – Antique Engraving, ca.1873

Name: The Rocky Mountains, Western Frontier Landscape – Antique Engraving, ca.1873
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14129-24
Price: 255 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1873
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 23.3 × 31.6 cm (9.2 × 12.4 in)
Condition: Good. Good antique condition. Light age toning and faint spotting in the margins, consistent with age. The image itself is strong and clear, with good contrast. A visible plate mark is present. No major tears or losses observed.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-14129-24

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 Rocky Mountains seen across a prairie river, an original steel engraving published in New York by D. Appleton and Co., with the plate title "The Rocky Mountains" and a copyright notice engraved beneath the image. The date is given as 1873, and the engraver's name is lettered at the lower right.

The view opens across the broad, shallow stream in the foreground, where a few figures and horses stand in the water or on the bank. A tall cottonwood and other trees shade the near bank, a pair of tipis stand among them, and the plain runs back to a long line of dim hills. At the far horizon a snow-capped peak rises above the range.

The sheet belongs to the group of American landscape engravings that Appleton issued in these years for readers in the East, who knew the plains and the Rockies from such prints. The engraver named in the old description is R. Hinshelwood.

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