Lithograph, hand-colored. Image 26x39.5 cm (10¼x15½") on sheet 35.5x52.3 cm (14x20½"). Striking hand-colored lithograph from Captain Henry Warre's Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, one of the great pictorial records of the Pacific Northwest during the early years of settlement. Warre and Lieutenant Mervin Vavasour of the Royal Engineers were agents of the British government sent out [as spies] to Oregon at the height of the controversy between the United States and Great Britain over the sovereignty of that territory. There were twenty plates in the work, available in either colored or uncolored state. Howes W114 call the former "the only western color-plates comparable in beauty to those by Bodmer accompanying Maximilian's Travels".
Lithograph, hand-colored. Image 26x39.5 cm (10¼x15½") on sheet 35.5x52.3 cm (14x20½"). Striking hand-colored lithograph from Captain Henry Warre's Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, one of the great pictorial records of the Pacific Northwest during the early years of settlement. Warre and Lieutenant Mervin Vavasour of the Royal Engineers were agents of the British government sent out [as spies] to Oregon at the height of the controversy between the United States and Great Britain over the sovereignty of that territory. There were twenty plates in the work, available in either colored or uncolored state. Howes W114 call the former "the only western color-plates comparable in beauty to those by Bodmer accompanying Maximilian's Travels".
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