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Artist/Maker
John Cameron
(American)
Publisher
Currier & Ives
(American, 1857 - 1907)
Datepublished 1870
MediumHand-colored lithograph on paper
DimensionsComposition: 7 7/8 × 12 1/2 in. (20 × 31.8 cm)
Sheet: 13 1/2 × 17 3/4 in. (34.3 × 45.1 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891
Object number1959.88
Not on view
Collections
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. (Conjunction with the Art of Music), April 7 - June 3, 1984 (no cat.).
1963
Utica, NY. Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Auditorium Gallery. January 13 - February 10, 1963.
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. (Conjunction with the Art of Music), April 7 - June 3, 1984 (no cat.).
1963
Utica, NY. Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Auditorium Gallery. January 13 - February 10, 1963.
Provenance
1959: Hamilton College, by bequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams
Signature
Signed on stone at lower right: CAMERON; in typeset at lower left: PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES
Inscribed
Entitled in typeset at lower center: THE TURN OF THE TUNE / TRAVELLER PLAYING THE "ARKANSAS TRAVELLER"; 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; in typeset at lower center below title: SQUATTER _ WHY STRANGER I'VE BEEN TRYING FOR FOUR YEARS TO GIT THE TURN OF THAT TUNE. _ COME RIGHT IN? _ JOHNNY TAKE THE HORSE AND FEED HIM? _ WIFE GIT UP THE BEST CORN / CAKES YOU CAN MAKE? _ SALLY MAKE UP THE BEST BED? _ HE CAN PLAY THE TURN OF THAT TUNE _ COME RIGHT IN AND PLAY IT ALL THROUGH STANGER? _ YOU KIN LODGE WITH US A MONTH FREE OF CHARGE.; inscribed in pencil at lower left corner: 14; in pencil on verso at upper right [on side]: 78; in pencil on verso at center [upside down]: Black & gilt; in pencil on verso at lower left: HC 92; in pencil on verso at lower right [upside down]: OPS
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Object number: 1971.39.8
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