Expansive View of Big Blackfoot Valley – American Frontier Lithograph, 1856

Name: Expansive View of Big Blackfoot Valley – American Frontier Lithograph, 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-32
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1856
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
Condition: Good. Condition Summary: The print is in good condition with light age-related toning and minimal foxing. Margins are clean.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Montana
Reference: BG-14038-32

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 Blackfoot Valley in western Montana, an original tinted lithograph issued in 1856. The caption reads "Big Blackfoot Valley", with "Schon. Del." at lower left and "Sarony, Major & Knapp Lithg., 449 Broadway N.Y." at lower right. The header reads "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys, 47th & 49th Parallels" and the sheet is numbered General Report, Plate LXII.

The view looks out from an open, rocky hilltop across a band of dark conifers to a wide valley floor and long ranges of low hills in the distance. A few boulders and a small deciduous tree are drawn in the near foreground, and a handful of tiny figures or animals can be made out at the edge of the trees. The color is a pale green and gray, with a cloudy sky.

The plate is after Gustavus Sohon, the soldier-artist who accompanied the northern survey. The 47th and 49th parallels route was the northern survey led by Isaac Ingalls Stevens, governor of Washington Territory, and the plates after Stanley and Sohon record country that was then little known to the eastern public. It was published in Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

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