Antique Print of the City of St. Louis by Appleton, 1872
€ 250
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1872
Mapmaker / artist
D. Appleton & Company (Artist)
Sheet size
33 × 40 cm (13.0 × 15.7 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-11660-1
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.
Condition
Minor fading. Please note that the passepartout lines are in fact straight., the instable lines are caused by the scanner. Age-related toning. Please review the images for further condition details.
About this sheet
St. Louis seen across the Mississippi River, a steel engraving with color from Picturesque America, published in New York by D. Appleton and Company in 1872. The plate title is engraved beneath the image: "City of St. Louis."
The view looks across the broad river toward the city on the far bank, with a long line of buildings and domes along the waterfront under a pall of smoke from the steamboats and factories. Paddle wheelers lie along the landing, a sailboat and a rowing skiff cross the water, and a bridge spans the river in the distance at the right. In the foreground two men sit in the shade of overhanging trees on the bank, looking out at the scene.
Picturesque America, edited by William Cullen Bryant and issued in parts between 1872 and 1874, was the most ambitious illustrated survey of the American landscape of its time, and its views of cities, rivers and mountains are among the best-known American steel engravings of the period. St. Louis, a leading river port of the Mississippi valley, was the gateway to the West.
