The Arkansas Traveller : Scene in the Back Woods of Arkansas

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Artist/Maker John Cameron American

Artist/Makerafter Edward Payson Washburn American, 1831 – 1860

Publisher Currier & Ives American, 1857 – 1907

Datepublished 1870

MediumHand-colored lithograph on paper

DimensionsComposition: 8 in. × 12 1/2 in. (20.3 × 31.8 cm) Sheet: 13 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (34.3 × 44.5 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891

Object number1959.7

Not on view

Collections

American Art

Published ReferencesFrederick A. Conningham, CURRIER & IVES PRINTS: AN ILLUSTRATED CHECKLIST (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983), no. 270

Additional Details

Exhibition History 1988
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "America on the Move," January 9 - February 21, 1988 (no cat.).

1984
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. "Art of Music," April 7 - June 3, 1984 (no cat.).

1963
Utica, NY. Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Museum of Art, Auditorium Gallery. January 13 - February 10, 1963 (no cat.).

Provenance 1959: Hamilton College by bequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams

Published References Frederick A. Conningham, CURRIER & IVES PRINTS: AN ILLUSTRATED CHECKLIST (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983), no. 270

Signature Signed in typeset at lower left: PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES

Inscribed Entitled at lower center: THE ARKANSAS TRAVELLER / SCENE IN THE BACK WOODS OF ARKANSAS.; inscribed in typeset at lower left: PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES; in typeset at lower right: 125 NASSAU ST. NEW YORK; in typeset at lower center: ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS IN THE YEAR 1870, BY CURRIER & IVES IN THE CLERKS OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK / TRAVELLER, _TO SQUATTER, _ CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME REFRESHMENTS AND A NIGHTS LODGING?_SQUATTER TO SIR?_HAVEN'T GOT ANY ROOM, NOTHIN TO EAT (FIDDLES AWAY)_TRAVELLER_ / WHERE DOES THIS ROAD GO TO?_ _ SQUATTER, _IT DON'T GO ANYWHERE, IT STAYS HERE, _(STILL FIDDLING)_TRAVELLER,_WHY DON'T YOU PLAY THE REST OF THAT TUNE? SQUATTER._ DONT KNOW IT._ / TRAVELLER., _HERE GIVE ME THE FIDDLE_PLAYS.; in pencil at lower left corner: 15; inscribed on verso in pencil at upper right: [C. (or G?) C(orG?)rinkendoll/ [illegible]/ [illegible]; in pencil on verso at center: Black & gilt; in pencil on verso at lower left: HC 180 80; in pencil on verso at lower right: OPS