Wild River, Timeless Canyons. Balduin Mollhausen's Watercolors Of The Colorado

BEN W. HUSEMAN

Publication: Amon Carter Museum, 1995, Fort Worth

First edition. Oblong 8vo. Tan cloth, copper-colored titles on the front cover and spine, maps on front and rear endpapers, viii - 9 - 232 pp., frontispiece, foreword, acknowledgments, illustrated, color plates, portraits, maps, double column, catalogue of the watercolors, index. Mollhausen accompanied Lt. Joseph Ives in 1858 for his expedition up the Colorado River with the goal of making sketches and watercolors of the topography, flora and fauna, and native people they encountered.The Amon Carter Museum used the drawings as the subject for an exhibition that displayed the original drawings for the first time. This volume provides a look into the world of 1858. Fine, bright copy in bright dust jacket with minor wear to corners and extremities.

Inventory Number: 53103