Watercolor, oil and sepia paintings of Indians and western scenery, including one of William Drummond Stewart and Antoine Clement
Description:
WA MSS 341 container 1: empty album; container 2: paintings. WA MSS 342 container 1: unframed paintings; containers 2-3: framed paintings (numbers 14 and 15 on detailed list). and Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), born in Baltimore, accompanied William Drummond Stewart on an 1837 expedition to the Green River Valley, Wind River Mountains, and the eastern section of Oregon Territory. He was commissioned by Stewart to sketch the Indians and scenery and later enlarge them into oil paintings.
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Laramie (Wyo.) and Wind River Range (Wyo.)
Subject (Name):
Clement, Antoine., Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874., and Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 6-1871.
Subject (Topic):
Buffaloes, Chinook Indians, Dakota Indians, Indians of North America, Nez Percé Indians, Pawnee Indians, Shoshonean Indians, Shoshoni Indians, and Siksika Indians
Russell, Charles M. (Charles Marion), 1864-1926, artist
Published / Created:
[not before 1901]
Call Number:
BrSides Zc12 901ru
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Reproduction of the 1901 painting by Charles M. Russell; depicts a group of Native Americans moving camp; women with children on horseback pulling travois from left to right
Description:
BEIN Broadsides Zc12 901ru: On sheet 22.1 x 29.6 cm. and Title from caption printed below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Travois, Indian women, and Indians of North America
Title from item., Date derived from original containing volume., Place of publication from item., Wat-Che-Mon-Ne is depicted wearing an Indian Peace Medal., From book of reproductions of paintings from The Indian Gallery Department of War, Washington, D.C: Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, Indian Tribes of North American, Philadelphia: Edward C. Biddle, 1836., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Published by F.W. Greenough, Philad, Drawn Printed & Coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment No.94 Walnut St., and Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1838 by F.W.Greenough, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penna
Subject (Topic):
Iowa Indians, Indians, King and rulers, Indians of North America, Medals, and Tribal chiefs
Print depicts a long train of an ox-drawn wagons stretching in an "s" curve from the low mountains in the background through the flat middle-ground to the foreground where three scouts are on horseback in the left foreground and all are watched by a small indigenous family group of three children and three adults in the right foreground
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 880wa: Mounted on board 70 x 101 cm. Edges of print covered by mat. and Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
H.S. Crocker & Co.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Wagon trains, Indians of North America, and Frontier and pioneer life
Wearing a traditional Franciscan habit, the friar Antonio Margil (who was venerated in 1836) holds a crucifix in his left hand, to which he points with his right, as he preaches to a group of exotically dressed Native Americans in an outdoor setting
Alternative Title:
Vera effigies venerabilis servi dei patris Antonii Margil
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Cataloger unable to make precise identification of artist; possibly Francesco Cecchi?
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Margil de Jesús, Antonio, 1657-1726
Subject (Topic):
Missionaries, Indians of North America, and Missions
