Trekking Through the Colorado Desert with Signal Mountain in the Distance, 1856

Name: Trekking Through the Colorado Desert with Signal Mountain in the Distance, 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-49
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)
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: California
Reference: BG-14038-49

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

A pack train crossing the Colorado Desert, an original tinted lithograph from the Pacific Railroad Surveys, issued in 1856. The caption reads "Colorado Desert and Signal Mountain", and the header reads "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys, Cal."

The image is cut in an arch, with a ruled frame in the corners. A column of riders and pack mules stretches across the flat, empty desert from the center of the sheet toward the horizon, with several men and their animals in the foreground, including one rider fallen or resting beside a loaded mule. A few dry shrubs are scattered over the sand, and the low, pale shape of the mountain floats on the far horizon. The sky grades from pale blue to warm yellow.

The plate was drawn for the California survey reports, which crossed the desert of southeastern California on the way to the passes. It was published in Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

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