Johnson, Edwin F. Map of the Proposed Northern Route for a Railroad to the Pacific. Hartford, CT, 1853. Weekly Offering 7012020 Brown University

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Bierstadt's 1860s paintings of the Rocky Mountains were already extremely popular at the time he returned to the American West to create this spectacular image of the unique rock dome formations of the Yosemite Valley

Both likely sold by James Wyld the younger from the Malby and Son stock

and small insects for context

The general colour of the plumage is blackish-brown

Johnson, Edwin F. Map of the Proposed Northern Route for a Railroad to the Pacific. Hartford, CT, 1853. Weekly Offering 7012020 Brown UniversityEdwin F. Johnson Map of the Proposed Northern Route for a Railroad to the Pacific Hartford, CT, 1853 35" x 22" Highly detailed railroad map of the United States, illustrating a number of different proposed Northern Routes for a railroad line to the Pacific, by Edwin F. Johnson, C. E. Johnson's map is one of the most interesting and important early maps to illustrate the prospective routes to the Pacific: As noted by Wheat: This is in many ways an