The watermark in the lower right corner of the image will not appear on the final print.
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Image:
8.00" x 6.00"
Mat Border:
2.00"
Frame Width:
0.88"
Overall:
13.50" x 11.50"
1839 Burr Wall Map of the United States Framed Print
by Paul Fearn
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1839 Burr Wall Map of the United States framed print by Paul Fearn. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Our framed prints are assembled, packaged, and shipped by our expert framing staff and delivered "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
Design Details
This is David H. Burr's all but unobtainable 1839 wall map of the United States. Burr's map is an accomplishment of staggering significance and is... more
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Artist's Description
This is David H. Burr's all but unobtainable 1839 wall map of the United States. Burr's map is an accomplishment of staggering significance and is considered the culmination of one of the most dramatic and romantic periods in the mapping of the American West. It is further one of the most significant maps in the opening of the American West to the Gold Rush that, in just a few years, would transform the nation. Between the expedition of Louis and Clark in 1804 - 1806 and the work of Fremont in the 1840s, the exploration of the Transmississippi experienced a kind of dark age. Nevertheless, while no official teams were pushing cartography westward, trappers and fur traders were slowly penetrating the region. Most of these figures were illiterate and did little to extend cartographic knowledge. The exception was Jedediah Smith, a trapper whose wanderings in the west and subsequent cartographic innovations the historian C. I. Wheat considers a tour-de-force unprecedented and never equaled...
About Paul Fearn
My passion is Photography and Aviation or is that Aviation and Photography ! I hope you enjoy my photographs.
$93.00
Ukrainian Artists
Excellent! Congratulations on your sale, Paul!
Norman Johnson
Congratulations on your sale.