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Artist/Maker
George Catlin
(American, 1796 – 1872)
Datepublished 1838
MediumLithograph with hand coloring
DimensionsComposition: 26 1/4 × 19 1/2 in. (66.7 × 49.5 cm)
Sheet: 26 11/16 × 19 15/16 in. (67.8 × 50.6 cm)
Frame: 32 3/4 × 26 1/8 × 1 5/8 in. (83.2 × 66.4 × 4.1 cm)
Credit LineThe Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection of Hamilton College
Object number1971.42
Not on view
Description"Catlin had lavished care on two portraits of Osceola [who died 30 January 1838, "only hours after posing" for Catlin in Oklahoma], bust length and full length, and capitalizing on the popular interest he drew the stand, rifle in hand, on stone and struck off a lithograph (20" x 26") for sale at $1.50. He advertised by handbill and in the newspapers, and with agents flogging the print on commission, anticipated the OSCEOLA. of Florida, as he called it, would be a money-maker" (SOURCE: Brian W. Dippie, "Catlin and his Contemporaries" (Lincoln, Nebraska: University Press, 1990), 117).
Full length portrait of native american man standing besides a rock and holding a rifle. rock inscribed with the words "Osceola of Florida - Drawn on Stone - Geo Caitlin - Original Portrait - New York 1838"
Additional Details
Provenance
1971: Hamilton College, by gift of Walter Beinecke, Jr.;
Winter 1966-67 - 1971: Walter Beinecke, Jr., presumably by purchase from K. Nebenzahl, Inc., Chicago;
? (no earlier than 1957) - Winter 1966-67: K. Nebenzahl, Inc., Chicago
Winter 1966-67 - 1971: Walter Beinecke, Jr., presumably by purchase from K. Nebenzahl, Inc., Chicago;
? (no earlier than 1957) - Winter 1966-67: K. Nebenzahl, Inc., Chicago
Published References
Hough, Samuel J. and Penelope R.O. Hough, THE BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION AT HAMILTON COLLEGE: A CATOLOGUE OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PRINTS, MAPS, AND DRAWINGS (Trustees of Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 1994), 337, catalogue no. P45.
Signature
Signed in the print at lower left: Geo Catlin.
Inscribed
Inscribed in the print at lower left: OSCEOLA. / of Florida. / Drawn on Stone / Geo Catlin. / from / ORIGINAL PORTRAIT / NEW YORK / 1838.
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