St Joseph Missouri Antique Print, River Town View, Steamboat c.1850
€ 229
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1850
Sheet size
14.6 × 23.9 cm (5.7 × 9.4 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14038-173
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 with age-related toning and scattered foxing, primarily in the margins. The image remains clean and detailed with strong contrast. Minor paper wear consistent with age.
About this sheet
The town of St. Joseph on the Missouri River, an original steel engraving of about 1850 with the plate title "St Joseph, Missouri". The sheet is printed in black on cream paper, with the publisher's small credit lines in the lower margin.
The view is taken from a wooded rise above the settlement. A large live oak at the left, hung with Spanish moss, frames the scene, and below it stand log cabins, a fence and a few figures. Beyond, the town spreads across rolling ground in close rows of houses and cross streets, with a domed building and a second large civic building at the upper right on the highest ground. A bend of the river with a small steamboat lies in the middle distance, and the far hills close the horizon under finely ruled sky.
St. Joseph, founded in the 1840s, became one of the principal starting points on the Missouri River for emigrants bound for Oregon and California, and the view shows the town as a busy outfitting center of that overland trade.
