The Southern Route From San Francisco to New York Published in The Graphic, 1887
€ 220
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1887
Sheet size
40.5 × 29.5 cm (15.9 × 11.6 in)
Reference
BG-13839-2
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, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Minor foxing (small brown spots) can be seen in a few areas, but they do not detract from the overall image. Please study scans carefully.
About this sheet
The southern route from San Francisco to New York in four vignettes, an original wood engraving with hand color from The Graphic, a London illustrated weekly, dated October 1, 1887 in the listing. The page is headed "The Graphic" and the group is titled "On the Southern Route from San Francisco to New York".
Each scene has its own printed caption. At the top, "A Mexican house at Fort Yuma, Arizona" shows an adobe street with figures in the sun, dogs, and a man in a feathered headdress at the right. Below it, "A street scene in Dodge City, Colorado" (as captioned) shows a saloon front with a lettered sign, men on the porch and horses tethered at the rail. The large central scene, "Driving a mountain stage near Nutt, New Mexico", has a stagecoach drawn by galloping horses on a mountain road, with pines and brown hills behind. At the lower right, "A scene among the Pueblo Indians, New Mexico" looks across a broad valley to a distant pueblo, with two figures and dogs in the foreground.
The sheet is an artist's record of the railroad journey west to east along the southern line, and its captions place Dodge City in Colorado, though the town is in Kansas.
