Author: (PICTURESQUE AMERICA / PRINT / SAN FRANCISCO)
Title: Golden Gate (from Telegraph Hill)
Description: New York, D. Appleton & Co, 1873. Steel engraving. 4to (12½" X 9¼"). Near fine. Bit of age toning along some edges. Bright and attractive heavy stock steel engraving from the first edition (1872-74) of editor William Cullen Bryant's landmark "Picturesque America; Or, The Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Waterfalls, Shores, Canyons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of Our Country," a hefty two-volume study of America's scenery in words and fine steel engraving considered highly influential to American tourism. "Golden Gate" was engraved by one of this work's most noteworthy engravers, Edward Paxman Brandard (1819-98), based on a landscape engraving by the noted artist James David Smillie (1833-1909). San Francisco is pictured at daybreak from atop this high point: A few pedestrians in the foreground gaze out over the building-covered hills in the middle distance, with the ship-filled bay extending out into the horizon. Most of the "Picturesque America" engravings were printed on regular text-weight stock, and a much smaller number (such as this example) on a fine, heavy stock. .
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Title: Golden Gate (from Telegraph Hill)
Description: New York, D. Appleton & Co, 1873. Steel engraving. 4to (12½" X 9¼"). Near fine. Bit of age toning along some edges. Bright and attractive heavy stock steel engraving from the first edition (1872-74) of editor William Cullen Bryant's landmark "Picturesque America; Or, The Land We Live In. A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Waterfalls, Shores, Canyons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of Our Country," a hefty two-volume study of America's scenery in words and fine steel engraving considered highly influential to American tourism. "Golden Gate" was engraved by one of this work's most noteworthy engravers, Edward Paxman Brandard (1819-98), based on a landscape engraving by the noted artist James David Smillie (1833-1909). San Francisco is pictured at daybreak from atop this high point: A few pedestrians in the foreground gaze out over the building-covered hills in the middle distance, with the ship-filled bay extending out into the horizon. Most of the "Picturesque America" engravings were printed on regular text-weight stock, and a much smaller number (such as this example) on a fine, heavy stock. .
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Price: US$ 65.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 40421
- Book number: 40421
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