Fort Union & Distribution of Goods to the Assiniboins Artist: John Mix Stanley (American, 1814–1872)

1854

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Watercolor over graphite

Dimensions

sheet: 6 7/16 × 10 11/16 in. (16.4 × 27.1 cm)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon, B.A. 1929, L.H.D.H. 1967, Collection

Accession Number

1982.39.10A

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Drawings

Disclaimer

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Bibliography
  • "John Mix Stanley: An Artist's View of the 1853 Pacific Railroad Survey and the Far Northwest," Montana: The Magazine of Western History 64 (2014), 47, fig. 5
  • Helen A. Cooper et al., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008), 294, no. 183, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

landscapes (representations), underdrawings, watercolors

Subject

Indigenous peoples of North America underdrawings

Inscriptions

see worksheet for inscription\r\nInscribed on mount: U.S.P.R.R. Ex'p & Surveys 47-49 Parallels;UR: General Report Plate XVI; LL: J.M. Stanely; bottom center: Fort Union & distribution of Goods to the Assiniboins; bottom: No 17 (crossed out); LC: No. 16 (crossed out); top right: fill up; bottom right: fill up

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