1856 · Views & Engravings
Historic Print of Blackfeet Council Near Missouri River Trading Posts - 1856
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- Date
- 1856
- Kind
- Views & Engravings
- Size
- 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
- Condition
- Good. This print is in very good condition, with minimal foxing and strong, vibrant colors. A clean margin enhances its framability and aesthetic appeal.
- Period
- Westward Expansion & Civil War
- Reference
- BG-14038-54
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
A council with the Blackfeet, an original tinted lithograph after John Mix Stanley, issued in 1856. The caption reads "Council with White Man's Horse", with "Stanley 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 XVII.
Two white tents stand at the center of the sheet with a larger group of men seated before them: Native men in feathered headdresses at the left and in the center, and a group of white members of the survey party to the right, under a large tree. A Native man stands speaking in the open space between the groups, and a further row of tents stretches away to the left toward a distant bluff. The tints are soft gray, tan and green.
The plate records one of the councils held by the northern survey with Native nations along the upper Missouri. 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.
