Dutton, Large Folio - The Grand Canyon at the Foot of the Toroweap - Looking East

Dutton, Large Folio - The Grand Canyon at the Foot of the Toroweap - Looking East
This large folio lithograph is from Clarence Edward Dutton's Atlas to Accompany the Monograph of the Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District. This first edition work was published in 1882 in New York by Julius Bien & Co.

The work featured several maps and panoramic views by W. H. Holmes and Thomas Moran. It is considered “one of the greatest if not the greatest of all Grand Canyon books.” (Farquhar) The atlas and views were created after the scientific explorations conducted in the West after the Civial War.

Clarence Edward Dutton (1841–1912) was an American geologist. He worked at the U.S. Geological Survey from 1875 to 1891 as a field geologies. He worked with John Wesley Powell on the survey of the Grand Canyon. Wallace Stegner in Beyond the Hundredth Meridian stated “Dutton first taught the world to look at that country and see it as it was… Dutton is almost as much the genius loci of the Grand Canyon as Muir is of Yosemite.”

William Henry Holmes (1846-1933) was an American geologist and artist and completed 9 of the 10 vistas that were illustrated for this work. Of W. H. Holmes, William Goetzmann calls him “the greatest artist–topographer and man of many talents that the West ever produced. He could sketch panoramas of twisted mountain ranges, sloping mountains, escarpments, plateaus, canyons, fault blocks, and grassy meadows accurately depicting hundreds of miles of terrain. They were better than maps and better than photographs because he gets details of stratigraphy that light and shadow obscured from the camera… his illustrations for [this work] are masterpieces of realism and draftsmanship as well as feats of imaginative observation." (Goetzmann, pp. 512–13; Farquhar, Colorado River 73; Reese, Best of the West 197)

Thomas Moran (1837-1926) was a painter and lithographer. He also helped illustrate the Grand Canyon area. For this work, he produced “Transept Kaibab Vision, Grand Canyon.”

The work is in very good to excellent condition. There is some separation of the paper the upper and lower folds. There may be a few minor imperfections to be expected with age. Please review the image carefully for condition and contact us with any questions.
~ 32 1/2" by 19 3/4"