Antique New Mexico Landscape Print, Wagon Train Scene, Meyer 1850s

€ 205

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

Sheet size: 16.7 × 23.6 cm (6.6 × 9.3 in)
Condition: Good
Reference: BG-14038-135

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 light age-related toning and occasional spotting in the margins. The image remains clean and well-defined, with strong contrast and fine engraved detail. Plate mark visible.

About this sheet

A wagon train at rest in a high desert landscape, an original steel engraving of the 1850s from Meyer's Universum, lettered in German "Landschaft bei der Furth über den Read River". The sheet carries the Bibliographisches Institut imprint of Hildburghausen and a Roman-numeral page number at the upper right.

In the foreground, at the edge of a rocky rise, a group of settlers sits and stands in conversation beside two covered wagons, with pack animals and horses at the left and smoke from a campfire at the right. The ground falls away to a broad valley with a river or lake, and flat-topped mesas and eroded buttes stand across the plain. A line of low mountains lies beyond, with one snow-covered peak showing at the horizon. A small tree and ferns frame the left edge.

The earlier description places the scene in what is now New Mexico, but the river is lettered "Read River" and no state appears on the plate.