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Buffalo Print

Herd of Bison Near Lake Jessie

Original 1855 - 1860 Print

Description: Bison; Cheyenne River; Lake Jessie Ascending a high hill after crossing the Sheyenne (Cheyenne) River, the expedition looked out upon an estimated 200,000 buffalo inhabiting the plains separating them from Lake Jessie.

Lithograph by Sarony, Major & Knapp, after a drawing by John Mix Stanley .

John Mix Stanley is one of the most accomplished Western artists of the nineteenth century, yet few of his works remain due to numerous fires that destroyed most of his collections. After growing up in New York and learning to paint in Detroit, Stanley set up a studio at Fort Gibson in present-day Oklahoma in 1842 in order to paint the Indians and frontiersmen. He undertook several expeditions with the military, such as traveling with Colonel Stephen Kearney to New Mexico and California and with General Isaac I. Stevens to explore a railroad route from Minnesota to Puget Sound. Stanley also traveled along the Pacific Coast and to Hawaii painting portraits of native inhabitants.
John Mix Stanley collection of 150 paintings were destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian in 1865 after Congress refused to purchase them. Another fire at P.T. Barnumâe(tm)s American Museum in New York destroyed more of his work.
Stanley was one of the first Western artists to use a daguerreotype camera to document the Indians and the landscape. He used the photographs as well as sketches to create his final painted compositions back in the studio. In addition to his paintings, Stanley also created two huge panoramas based on his sketches and photographs, one of which focused on life in the West and took two hours to view while the other concentrated on the Civil War. The panoramas toured around eastern cities as well, but nothing remains from either work. During the last years of his life, Stanley spent time in the studio painting and arranging for chomolithographs of his work.

6" X 9" image area 81/2" X 111/2" paper size

Some foxing 4 glue stains on back

All and all a good print -- these Rare original tinted lithograph or our Western expansion are getting very hard to find - 160 years ago in America this is what it looked like

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