Views & Engravings
Historic Fort Benton Along the Missouri River – 19th Century Lithograph Print
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€220 · dollar price at today's exchange rate
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- Kind
- Views & Engravings
- Size
- 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
- Places
- Montana
- Reference
- BG-14038-29
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.
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About this piece
Fort Benton on the upper Missouri, an original tinted lithograph after John Mix Stanley, issued as part of the Pacific Railroad Surveys. The caption reads "Fort Benton", with "Stanley Del." at lower left and the Sarony, Major & Knapp lithographers' credit at lower right. The header reads "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys, 47th & 49th Parallels" and the sheet is numbered General Report, Plate XXXV.
The trading post stands on the far bank at the right, a low line of adobe-style buildings with a small cupola, with a cluster of tepees pitched to its left. White clay bluffs rise behind the fort, and in the foreground riders lead horses through the shallows of the river while a few figures stand on the bank. The tints are a pale blue sky, cream and gray bluffs, and green grass.
Fort Benton was an American Fur Company post on the Missouri River in what is now Montana. It lay on the route followed by the northern railroad survey, and the plate records the post as the survey party found it. The plate comes from Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
