Price: $45.00
SKU: 101052
PUBLISHER: Harper's Weekly.
MEDIUM: Wood engraving,
DATE: c. 1857.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 9 1/2 x 4" (3.7 x 1.57 cm). Plus title and margins.
DESCRIPTION: 19th century, hand colored wood engraving of The Iron Mountain, in St. Francis County, Missouri. In the year 1843 a St. Louis newspaper published the following description of Iron Mountain: "It is about a mile broad at the base, 400 feet high and three miles long; and has the appearance of being composed of masses of iron ore. It is literally a mountain of ore so pure that it yields from 70 to 80 per cent under the ordinary process of converting it into malleable iron. At the base the ore lies in pieces from a pound weight upward, which increases in size as you ascend, until they assume the appearance of huge rocks, which would remind the beholder of those "fragments of an earlier world" of which the Titians made use. Six miles southeast in another mountain called Pilot Knob, composed of a macaceous oxide of iron lying in huge masses. This ore will yield about 80 per cent of metal."
ADDITIONAL INFO: The piece is in a mat for handling.
CONDITION: Good condition.
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