1837 HUNTING BUFFALO WESTERN AMERICANA McKENNEY & HALL FOLIO LITHOGRAPH PRINT
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Reference Number: Avaluer:1277750 |
This outstanding and highly s...ought after Western Americana, Stone Lithograph measures approx. 15 3/8” by 9” (image area) and retains its full, original margins of approx. 1 3/8" to 2 1/2" on all edges (overall sheet size is 20" by 13 3/4"). It is copyright 1837 by the publisher – E. C. Biddle of Philadelphia and was “Drawn, Printed & Coloured at I. T. Bowen’s Lithographic Establishment, No. 94 Walnut St”.
This wonderful Western Americana View is among the most desirable from McKenny & Hall’s Folio Edition. The Image depicts a Native American Indian on horseback riding aside a buffalo at the center. The Indian wears beaded and fringed buckskin garb and aims his arrow at the already wounded Buffalo that he is chasing down. In the background, this scene is repeated with other Indians seen chasing down other Bison among a large herd. The scene is dramatic and captivating and among one of the most iconic Images of its type.
McKenney and Hall's Indian Tribes of North America have long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portrait plates are based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. "the most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed" (Howes). T. L. McKenney's goal in commissioning the Indian Tribes of North America was both to educate the American public about these greatly exotic warriors and chiefs and to preserve them for posterity in a series of beautiful portraits. Most of the original oil portraits were painted from life in studio of Charles Bird King, to whom McKenney brought many of the subjects. The rest were copied from watercolors executed in the field by a young frontier artist named James Otto Lewis. Once finished the portraits were housed in the Smithsonian, where they remained until an 1865 fire burned down the institution and destroyed most of the paintings. Their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. As a result the folio and octavo editions are vital in their "faithful recording of the features and dress of celebrated American Indians who lived and died long before the age of photography".
This very rare and quite wonderful Western Americana , Hand Colored Stone Lithograph is in very good to excellent condition - the coloring is bright and vibrant and the image area is crisp and clean and exceptionally well preserved with some light, uniform and unobtrusive age toning caused by a previous matting and framing. The original margins are full, wide and well preserved with no tears or chipping. The margins are generally clean with a line of light age toning outlining the opening of a previous matt. The Sheet has no damage or repairs of any kind, however the edges are taped to a sheet of paper board – another remnant of a previous matting and framing. Overall the Sheet is well preserved and displays beautifully.
Please Note: This Lithograph is 100%, unconditionally guaranteed to be an original, 1837 printing by I. T. Bowen and not a re-strike, reprint or reproduction of any kind.
An exceptionally rare and simply fantastic, 1837 Hand Colored, Western Americana Subject, Stone Lithograph titled “Hunting the Buffaloe” drawn on stone and printed by I. T. Bowen from the original painting by Peter Rindisbacher and a fantastic addition to any collection!!
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