Serene View of Flathead Lake and Surrounding Mountains in Montana, Litho of 1856

Name: Serene View of Flathead Lake and Surrounding Mountains in Montana, Litho of 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-31
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 but there are a few small tears and creases in the margins, not touching the image.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Montana
Reference: BG-14038-31

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

Flathead Lake in the northern Rocky Mountains, an original tinted lithograph after John Mix Stanley, issued in 1856. The caption reads "Flathead Lake, Looking Southward", 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 numbered General Report plate.

Pines and slender trees frame the view from a grassy slope. Below, the lake spreads out in a broad sheet of still water dotted with small wooded islands, a forested headland juts in at the right, and a long range of pale mountains runs across the horizon beneath a cloudy sky. The tints are soft greens and grays.

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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