The Rocky Mountains from the Columbia River looking N.W.
London ]: Dickinson & Co., [1848]. Color lithograph, with additional hand-coloring and touches of gum arabic. Sheet size: 13 x 20 1/2 in. An important image of the early american west the rockies 'capped and dazzling in their white mantle of snow' (Warre). Henry James Warre was an English army officer who was assigned to Canada , where he examined and reported on river communications between Montreal and the Red River settlements in the Oregon Territory , and points beyond. He left Montreal in May, 1845, and returned there in July of the following year. The best of the sketches he made during the expedition were published in Warre's Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory ( London : 1848), which also included a map and narrative text, 'Sketch of the Journey'. The present image is one of the best prints from this spectacular work. Cf. Abbey Travel II, 656; cf. Graff 4543; cf. Howes W-114; cf. Sabin 101455; cf. Smith 10727; cf. Stokes, 1846-F-76 and 1846-F-78; cf. Tooley (1954) 500; cf. Wagner-Camp 157
The Rocky Mountains from the Columbia River looking N.W.
London ]: Dickinson & Co., [1848]. Color lithograph, with additional hand-coloring and touches of gum arabic. Sheet size: 13 x 20 1/2 in. An important image of the early american west the rockies 'capped and dazzling in their white mantle of snow' (Warre). Henry James Warre was an English army officer who was assigned to Canada , where he examined and reported on river communications between Montreal and the Red River settlements in the Oregon Territory , and points beyond. He left Montreal in May, 1845, and returned there in July of the following year. The best of the sketches he made during the expedition were published in Warre's Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory ( London : 1848), which also included a map and narrative text, 'Sketch of the Journey'. The present image is one of the best prints from this spectacular work. Cf. Abbey Travel II, 656; cf. Graff 4543; cf. Howes W-114; cf. Sabin 101455; cf. Smith 10727; cf. Stokes, 1846-F-76 and 1846-F-78; cf. Tooley (1954) 500; cf. Wagner-Camp 157
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