Henry Epting, artist; British Columbia Printing and Engraving Corporation, lithographer
Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada
1903
Chromolithograph, framed
19 x 35.5 in
This chromolithograph presents an elevated birdseye view of Dawson, Yukon Territory, looking across the gridded townsite on the near bank of the Yukon River toward a range of snow covered mountains along the horizon. The Klondike River enters from the right and meets the Yukon opposite Klondike City and the N.A.T. and T. Company mill and lumber yards, with Bonanza and Eldorado named along the valley beyond, while steamboats, a barge, and small craft work the water in the foreground. A bare landslide scar marks the hillside at left, and the panel below reads Birdseye View of Dawson, Yukon Ter., 1903, signed H. Epting at the lower right of the image.
A numbered key beneath the view identifies thirty eight structures, among them the Administration Building, the Territorial Court Buildings, the N.W.M.P. barracks, Government House, the electric light and power plant, the public school, and the banks, churches, warehouses, and commercial blocks of the town. The sheet was entered for copyright by W. P. Thompson in 1903 and lithographed by the British Columbia Printing and Engraving Corporation of Vancouver, a year before Dawson was incorporated and several years after the peak of the Klondike gold rush. The dominant tone across the townsite and riverbanks is a yellowish gold, and the print is held in a gilt frame.
Henry Epting (1860 to 1911) was a color artist active on the Pacific Coast. He served as the first staff artist at West Shore magazine in the 1880s and in 1886 was a founding member of the Portland Art Club, the first artist organization in the Pacific Northwest. He traveled to Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and Yellowstone before settling in Oregon, where he worked for the publisher Gibson Catlett on large scale birdseye views.
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Henry Epting, artist; British Columbia Printing and Engraving Corporation, lithographer
Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada
1903
Chromolithograph, framed
19 x 35.5 in
This chromolithograph presents an elevated birdseye view of Dawson, Yukon Territory, looking across the gridded townsite on the near bank of the Yukon River toward a range of snow covered mountains along the horizon. The Klondike River enters from the right and meets the Yukon opposite Klondike City and the N.A.T. and T. Company mill and lumber yards, with Bonanza and Eldorado named along the valley beyond, while steamboats, a barge, and small craft work the water in the foreground. A bare landslide scar marks the hillside at left, and the panel below reads Birdseye View of Dawson, Yukon Ter., 1903, signed H. Epting at the lower right of the image.
A numbered key beneath the view identifies thirty eight structures, among them the Administration Building, the Territorial Court Buildings, the N.W.M.P. barracks, Government House, the electric light and power plant, the public school, and the banks, churches, warehouses, and commercial blocks of the town. The sheet was entered for copyright by W. P. Thompson in 1903 and lithographed by the British Columbia Printing and Engraving Corporation of Vancouver, a year before Dawson was incorporated and several years after the peak of the Klondike gold rush. The dominant tone across the townsite and riverbanks is a yellowish gold, and the print is held in a gilt frame.
Henry Epting (1860 to 1911) was a color artist active on the Pacific Coast. He served as the first staff artist at West Shore magazine in the 1880s and in 1886 was a founding member of the Portland Art Club, the first artist organization in the Pacific Northwest. He traveled to Alaska, Montana, Idaho, and Yellowstone before settling in Oregon, where he worked for the publisher Gibson Catlett on large scale birdseye views.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
