A wonderful wood engraving from 1874 by Nathaniel Orr (1822-1908)
 
“St. Paul, from Dayton’s Bluff”
"Steamboats on the Mississippi at Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA"
"...Dayton's Bluff, on the east side of St. Paul, where, with one sweeping glance, the eye takes in the city, its towers, and its elevators, the railroad-bridges, the opposing rocky shores, and the graceful curve of the river"
 
From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]
 
Nathaniel Orr was one of the most noted engravers of the second-half of the nineteenth century. Born in London, Ontario, he learned engraving from John H. Hall of Albany, New York before moving his firm to Manhattan.
 
Excellent condition with little to no foxing