Lot 566
AFTER colonel HENRY JAMES WARRE (1819-1898)
Lot 566 Details
AFTER colonel HENRY JAMES WARRE (1819-1898), British
THREE VIEWS FROM WARRE’S BOOK: “SKETCHES IN NORTH AMERICA AND THE OREGON TERRITORY”, 1848 INCLUDING: FORT VANCOUVER; FORT GARRY, WINNIPEG; FIGURES IN A FOOTHILL ENCAMPMENT
three handcoloured lithographs; published by Dickson & Company, Lith., London, 1848
Sheet sight 9" x 12.5" — 22.9 x 31.8 cm.; 10.5" x 14.75" — 26.7 x 37.5 cm.; 10.5" x 15.75" — 26.7 x 40 cm.; 10.75" x 15.75" — 27.3 x 40 cm.
Estimate $600-$900
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Provenance:
Prominent Collection, Canada
Note:
Captain Warre and Lieutenant Vavasour of the Royal Engineers were agents of the British government sent to Oregon at the height of the controversy between the United States and Great Britain over the sovereignty of that territory. They visited several forts and settlements around the region during their seven-month visit to the Oregon Country. The two officers crossed Canada by the Hudson's Bay Company route as far as the Rockies, where they turned south to cross the mountains, probably through Crow's Nest Pass, to Kootenai Lake. They reached Fort Vancouver on August 25, 1845.