Scenic Expedition to Cadotte’s Pass in the Rocky Mountains, Tinted Litho of 1856

Name: Scenic Expedition to Cadotte’s Pass in the Rocky Mountains, Tinted Litho of 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-52
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)
Condition: Good. Very good condition for its age. Lightly toned paper with minor foxing, typical of its age, yet colors remain sharp. Margins are clean and intact except for a few pinholes in the top margins, not touching the image.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Montana
Reference: BG-14038-52

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

The approach to Cadotte's Pass in the Rocky Mountains, an original tinted lithograph after John Mix Stanley, issued in 1856. The caption reads "Approach to Cadotte's Pass", 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 a General Report plate.

A long line of riders winds across the open, sandy floor of a valley toward distant, broken ridges, with a few shrubs and a large rock in the foreground. Sharp buttes and eroded peaks rise on both sides of the track, and a haze softens the horizon. Tints of buff, gray and orange give the dry, open landscape its warm tone.

Cadotte's Pass crosses the Continental Divide in what is now Montana and was used by the northern railroad 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. 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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