1882 Tinted Lithograph of "The Temples & Towers of the Virgen"

This is an amazingly detailed & accurate view of Zion Canyon, in southern Utah, from Edward Dutton's Atlas of the "Grand Canyon District."  Dutton was born in Wallingford, CT, on May 15, 1841, graduating from Yale in 1860.  He served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and then joined the U.S. Geological Survey.  He worked in a number of places, including Hawaii, Oregon, and the American Southwest, in particular surveying the Grand Canyon.  In 1882, he issued his Atlas of the Grand Canyon survey, a magnificent document of the exploration of one of the last surveyed  parts of the United States.     The views were based on first-hand drawings by William Henry Holmes (1846-1933), who 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 without a doubt, some of the best images of the West made in that period