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Rocky Mountains from the Columbai River Looking N.W. The,

  • ARTIST: Henry Warre

  • MEDIUM: Two-stone lithograph handcolored,

    DATE: 1848.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 7 7/16 x 11 3/4" (18.8 x 29.7 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: Henry J. Warre, Del. Dickinson & Co. Lith. Warre was a captain in the British army. During 1845-46 he accompanied a military reconnaissance survey to the Oregon region as a sketch artist. Warre's watercolors were reproduced in "Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory", twenty lithographs published in London in 1848. Oregon Territory was established after Britain relinquished its claim to the area below the 49th parallel.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition and color, save for a few fox marks.

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