Majestic View of the Marias River Canyon by Great Falls, Montana - Litho of 1856

Name: Majestic View of the Marias River Canyon by Great Falls, Montana - Litho of 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-51
Price: 245 USD
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Date: 1856
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Montana
Reference: BG-14038-51

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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.

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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

The Marias River canyon in northern Montana, an original tinted lithograph after John Mix Stanley, issued in 1856. The caption reads "Marias River", 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 XXVI.

High white bluffs enclose a wide river valley, with the river bending away through groves of cottonwoods and a grassy bottom. A dark slope of broken rock falls steeply at the right, and on its face a lone man in a dark hat walks beside a pack horse. Small buildings stand on the crest of the far bluff. The tints are pale cream and gray with soft green.

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. 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.

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