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Auction 131, Lot 286

"Mission and Plain of San Fernando", U.S. Railroad Surveys

Subject: San Fernando, California

Period: 1856 (published)

Publication: Survey for Routes for a Pacific Railroad Reports

Color: Hand Color

Size:
9 x 5.8 inches
22.9 x 14.7 cm
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This tinted lithograph is the first depiction of the San Fernando Valley (The Valley), the now urban northwest area of Los Angeles. The scene shows the walled mission in left center, a rider on a horse, some cattle, and a native harvesting prickly pear fruit in the foreground. The San Gabriel Mountains are shown in the background.

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Condition: A

A lovely impression that is fine less one small spot in sky at right and another in border at left.

Estimate: $150 - $200

Sold for: $110

Closed on 3/17/2010

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