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1855 Colton Map of Texas Canvas Print
by Paul Fearn
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1855 Colton Map of Texas canvas print by Paul Fearn. Bring your artwork to life with the texture and depth of a stretched canvas print. Your image gets printed onto one of our premium canvases and then stretched on a wooden frame of 1.5" x 1.5" stretcher bars (gallery wrap) or 5/8" x 5/8" stretcher bars (museum wrap). Your canvas print will be delivered to you "ready to hang" with pre-attached hanging wire, mounting hooks, and nails.
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A beautiful 1855 first edition example of Colton's map of Texas. Largely based on the important De Cordova map of Texas, this map covers the entire... more
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Artist's Description
A beautiful 1855 first edition example of Colton's map of Texas. Largely based on the important De Cordova map of Texas, this map covers the entire state as well parts of adjacent New Mexico, Arkansas and the Indian Territory (Oklahoma). Names a number of historic routes, including Connelly's Trail, Lieutenants Smith and Whiting's Route, the Comanche Trail, the proposed Route for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and the route to Fort Smith. Colton also comments on the mineral wealth of the land, makes note on good pasturing, and identifies fords and springs. Colton's interestingly includes the following note on the Texas-New Mexico border, From the head waters of the Red Brazos and Colorado Rivers to the Rio Pecos is a desolate and sterile plain from 100 to 200 miles in width, elevated about 4,500 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, without water or timber, and with a scanty vegetation. Here Colton is making a cartographic stand against earlier claims published on Arrowsmith's important 1841...
About Paul Fearn
My passion is Photography and Aviation or is that Aviation and Photography ! I hope you enjoy my photographs.
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