Emigrants crossing the plains / F.O.C. Darley, fecit ; H.B. Hall, Jr. sc. – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Emigrants crossing the plains / F.O.C. Darley, fecit ; H.B. Hall, Jr. sc. comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Emigrants crossing the plains / F.O.C. Darley, fecit ; H.B. Hall, Jr. sc.
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Oxen pulling a line of canvas-topped wagons across open grassland give this engraving its particular character, with the slow, heavy teams standing in for the whole overland journey. Felix O.C. Darley, one of the leading American illustrators of the mid-nineteenth century, designed the scene, and H.B. Hall Jr. cut the engraving that Appleton published around 1869. Between the 1840s and the 1860s, families traveling the Oregon, California and Mormon trails often spent months on the road, and the ox-drawn wagon was the workhorse of that migration. The print is worth noticing for how it presents the westward movement as a shared, patient labor.
| Created / published | New York : D. Appleton & Co., c1869. |
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| Medium | 1 print : engraving, color. |
| Genre | Engravings Color 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | Ox teams--United States--1860-1870. Emigration & immigration--United States--1860-1870. Covered wagons--United States--1860-1870. Pioneers--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,239 × 948 px · prints to 4 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216730 |
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