Indian Guide, Trying the Ford

Artist Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810 - 1874)

Date1837

Mediumpen and ink, ink wash with white highlights on paper

Dimensions6 7/8 x 9 inches (17.5 x 22.9 cm)
Frame: 12 3/8 × 14 3/8 × 5/8 inches (31.4 × 36.5 × 1.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.34.17

ClassificationsPaintings

DescriptionEarliest version of subject.

Provenance(Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York, New York)[1]; purchased February 10, 1958 by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art | 1. “We have been some ten or a dozen years amassing the rest of this collection from various individuals who were direct descendents[sic] of the pioneer artist himself.” (excerpt from a letter to HJLS from Charles Eberstadt dated November 26, 1957)

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