Mexican American War Lithograph of the U.S. Landing at Veracruz, 1848

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Landing of the Troops at Vera Cruz, 1848, documents the U.S. amphibious landing at Veracruz during the Mexican-American War, a campaign that opened General Winfield Scott’s route toward Mexico City and became one of the war’s defining military episodes. The print supports research into U.S. expansion, Mexican territorial loss, military visual culture, and popular American depictions of the invasion of Mexico.

Landing of the Troops at Vera Cruz. Philadelphia: Wagner & McGuigan, 1848. Hand-colored lithographic print, framed, 14" x 19.75"; visible print measures 12" x 18.25". The image shows U.S. soldiers gathered along the Veracruz shoreline, cannons placed on the beach, an American flag raised above the landing force, and ships and rowboats offshore bringing additional troops toward land. The composition appears related to the image published in John Frost’s A Pictorial History of Mexico and the Mexican War, issued in 1848, and the Huntington Library identifies a Wagner & McGuigan version as depicting American soldiers landing at Veracruz during the Mexican-American War.

U.S. forces landed at Veracruz in March 1847, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed February 2, 1848, ended the war and transferred vast northern Mexican territories to the United States. Framed in waxed wood behind glass, backed in brown craft paper with horizontal wire hanger; lower two margin corners clipped or folded, mild fading, and original creasing from folds; overall very good condition. A strong contemporary visual record of the Veracruz campaign and the expansionist war that reshaped the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

Item #21002

Price: $485.00