Tinted Lithograph of Valley in the Slope of the Great Basin in California, 1856

Name: Tinted Lithograph of Valley in the Slope of the Great Basin in California, 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-2
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1856
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
Condition: Excellent. With minimal age-related toning and no significant marks or blemishes. Edges are crisp, and the image remains vibrant.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: California
Reference: BG-14038-2

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

Valley in the Slope of the Great Basin, Leading from the Tejon Pass, a tinted lithograph of 1856 from a sketch by Charles Koppel, lithographed by A. Hoen and Company of Baltimore for the Pacific Railroad Surveys. The legend at the upper left reads "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys, Cal." and the plate is lettered "Geology Plate XI." at the upper right, with the artist's and printer's credits at the foot of the image.

The view looks across an open desert valley with bare brown hills beyond. Joshua trees, their shaggy trunks branching into tufts of spiky leaves, stand in groups on both sides, and yuccas and low scrub fill the foreground. A rider on a mule in a white hat travels in the middle, and a file of mounted men approaches along the valley floor in the middle distance under a wide sky streaked with cloud.

The Tejon Pass lies in the mountains north of Los Angeles, and the surveyors of the Pacific Railroad expeditions followed this way from the Great Valley of California toward the Mojave country and the Great Basin. The plate belongs to the geological section of the reports.

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