Raynors HCA 2015-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/3/2015
Four manuscript maps, various sizes. Matted. All but the largest with wide margins. Minor soiling. Very good plus. All four maps drawn by William Guy Peck (1820-1892) during his years as a student at West Point. Peck graduated West Point in 1844 and served with the Topographical Engineers; was assigned as assistant to James William Abert, surveying the Canadian River through Indian territory during the summer of 1845, and the next year he and Abert accompanied Gen. Stephen W. Kearny's Army of the West to New Mexico. He subsequently spent two years (1848-50) on the faculty at West Point, where he taught drawing. Peck also authored several textbooks on mathematics. The largest of these maps is a plan of West Point, dated 1841 (19-1/2” x 14”), which shows the buildings and topographical elevations of the point. The other three are unidentified, but show a confluence of two rivers (7 1/4” x 9”), a landscaped garden (6-1/2” x 8”), and military troop movements, possibly from an exercise performed at the school (5” x 5”). All are neatly executed in ink.
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