Big Hole Prairie View – Scenic Montana Landscape Print, Published in 1856

Name: Big Hole Prairie View – Scenic Montana Landscape Print, Published in 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-71
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1856
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Montana
Reference: BG-14038-71

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Big Hole Prairie, from the North, a color-tinted lithograph of 1856 from the Pacific Railroad Surveys reports (heading "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys, 47th & 49th Parallels", "General Report, Plate XLIX"). The lettering beneath the image reads "Big Hole Prairie, from the North", with "Stanley del. after Gibbon" at lower left and the New York lithographers Sarony, Major & Knapp at lower right.

The view looks across a broad, pale grassland basin from a rocky rise in the foreground, past eroded banks of white clay and a belt of dark conifers, to a range of mountains under a band of clouds. A few animals graze in the middle distance and a winding stream runs along the right side.

Big Hole lies in southwestern Montana, and the plate belongs to the northern survey led by Isaac Stevens along the 47th and 49th parallels, one of the surveys that reported on routes for a Pacific railroad.

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