Henry Chapman Ford Signed Etching San Fernando Mission Montana " Includes "explanation" and notes

" Includes "explanation" and notes

He hoped to make it France's major port in the Pacific Northwest and described it as "perhaps the most extraordinary place in the world

One can see the faint original fold lines as issued when viewed from the verso

Triangulation chart showing the progress of the survey from Monterey Bay to the Bay of San Francsico

The entire map of Japan is drawn from eastward (from Kyushu to Ezo) although the print is read from right to left that is westward

Henry Chapman Ford Signed Etching San Fernando Mission Montana " Includes "explanation" and notesThis is a rare drypoint etching of San Fernando Mission, taken at one time from the Portfolio "Etchings of the Franciscan Missions of California," 1883 which was comprised of 24 matted drypoint etchings on Japan paper in a leather bound portfolio case with 28 page "Outlines of History, Description, etc." on stitched Antique paper, The Studio Press, New York, 1883, pub. Each of the 24 etchings signed and named in the plate: H. C. Ford 83, signed in