Tranquil View of the Colorado River Near Mojave Villages, Arizona - 1856

Name: Tranquil View of the Colorado River Near Mojave Villages, Arizona - 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-68
Price: 245 USD
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Date: 1856
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Arizona
Reference: BG-14038-68

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Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
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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.

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About this piece

Rio Colorado near the Mojave Villages, a color-tinted lithograph of 1856 from the reports of the Pacific Railroad Surveys (heading "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys, 35th Parallel"). The lettering beneath the image reads "Rio Colorado near the Mojave Villages, View No. 10, from the right bank looking East", with the credit "Drawn by J.J. Young from a sketch by A.H. Campbell" at left and the lithographers Sarony, Major & Knapp of New York at right.

The river fills the middle of the view, its surface holding the pale reflection of a cloudy sky. In the foreground a group of Mojave men sit and stand on a grassy bank beneath a large cottonwood at the right, while two figures work a small raft out on the water. On the far shore a long file of horses and riders moves along the bank toward a wagon at the water's edge, with low hills closing the horizon.

The 35th parallel survey followed the line of the Colorado River's crossing in the Mojave country, and the plates of the Pacific Railroad Reports remain a primary pictorial record of the Southwest as it looked before the railroads arrived.

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