1882 Lithograph of Toroweap from Vulcan's throne

This is an amazingly detailed & accurate two-part view looking the Toroweap Valley from Vulcan's Throne, on the edge of the Grand Canyon. From Edward Dutton's Atlas of the "Grand Canyon District."    The two views are continuous.  On the left are seen the cascades of lava descending from the craters upon the heights of Uinkaret with intervening pediments of upper Carboniferous strata.  The upper view shows the great lava streams descending from the Plateau, wrapping around the fine gable of Carboniferous strata and reaching to the brink of the inner gorge where they plunge into the bottom of the chasm.   William Henry Holmes (1846-1933) is responsible for the first-hand drawings from when he accompanied Dutton on his survey.  Holmes had first worked with Ferdinand V. Hayden, on the first survey of the state of Colorado, but his images of the Grand Canyon reached an unprecedented level of quality and realism. They are simply among the best images of the West make in the period of ex