Henry James Warre . Mount Hood, Oregon. 1848.

Henry James Warre (1819–1898)
Mount Hood, Oregon
From Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, London, 1848
Hand-colored lithograph
Sheet size: [insert dimensions] inches

This hand-colored lithograph of Mount Hood, Oregon, is the work of British military officer Henry James Warre, published in his 1848 volume Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory. Warre’s expedition, undertaken in 1845–46, documented the landscapes and strategic locations of the Oregon Territory amid rising tensions between Britain and the United States over control of the region. His illustrations, later transformed into lithographs, provided a European audience with some of the earliest visual records of the Pacific Northwest.

Depicting the iconic snow-capped peak in a grand, romanticized manner, this lithograph reflects both Warre’s artistic skill and the 19th-century European perspective on the untamed American frontier. The careful hand-coloring enhances the dramatic landscape, capturing the allure of the Oregon Territory at a pivotal moment in its history. An important work of visual and historical documentation, this example is of particular interest to collectors of early Western exploration and cartographic illustration.