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Historic Fort Benton Along the Missouri River, 19th Century Lithograph Print
$250
€220 · £185
Original print, not a reproduction.
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- Date
- Not stated
- Sheet size
- 8.1 × 11.1 in (20.7 × 28.3 cm)
- Condition
- Very good, with minimal foxing at the margins. The image is crisp, and the colors remain vivid and well-preserved.
- Collection
- Sieges & fortresses
- Stock no.
- f_43477752
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.
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