Sacramento City California – Antique Gold Rush Port Steel Engraving, ca.1850
€ 389
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1850
Sheet size
14.4 × 23.7 cm (5.7 × 9.3 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14038-125
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 for its age with light age toning and scattered minor spotting mainly visible in the margins. Plate mark visible. Paper remains stable and well preserved.
About this sheet
Sacramento City in the early Gold Rush years, an original steel engraving from Meyers Universum, published by the Bibliographisches Institut in Germany around 1850. The plate is printed in black and lettered below the image "Sacramento-City in Californien."
The view looks across the Sacramento River to the levee. Sailing ships with tall masts and a paddle-wheel steamer lie moored along the waterfront, with small boats among them, and the bank is crowded with cargo, wagons and figures. Beyond, a broad street runs inland between low wooden buildings and warehouses, with tents at the left edge and tall trees scattered through the settlement, and the distant Sierra foothills appear along the horizon.
Sacramento was the main supply point for the gold fields after the discovery of gold in California in 1848. Steamboats and sailing vessels carried goods and passengers up from San Francisco Bay to its levee, and this plate shows the town while it was still new and largely wooden.
