Missouri, Lake Champlain, New York, San Francisco & Cotton Harvest, 1879

€ 275

Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)

Date: 1879
Sheet size: 26.8 × 16.3 cm (10.6 × 6.4 in)
Condition: Good
Reference: BG-14302-16

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

Good condition consistent with age. Light age toning and occasional foxing. Minor handling wear at the sheet edges. The engraving remains clear and well-preserved. Please review all images carefully.

About this sheet

Five North American scenes on a single sheet: the Missouri River, Lake Champlain, New York harbor, the San Francisco waterfront and a cotton harvest. The print is an original engraving printed in sepia tones, issued in Haarlem in 1879 by J.M. Schalekamp and G. van den Berg in De Werelddeelen (The Continents), written by Jan Cornelis van den Berg and based largely on Friedrich von Hellwald's Die Erde und ihre Völker.

The scenes are numbered and captioned in Dutch beneath the images: "1. Gezicht op den Missouri. 2. Het Champlain-meer. 3. Gezicht op een haven van New-York. 4. De kade van San-Francisco. 5. De katoenoogst." At the top, a sidewheel steamboat trails smoke beside a snag-strewn bank on the Missouri, and a small boat with figures crosses Lake Champlain beneath distant mountains and a large tree. The broad New York view shows a rowboat in the foreground, sailing vessels and a domed fortification at the left. The San Francisco scene has two large paddle steamers at a crowded wharf, and at the bottom workers pick and carry cotton among palms and a thatched hut.

Together the vignettes give a Dutch reader's survey of American rivers, ports and plantation agriculture in the late 1870s.