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Wesh-Cubb, A Chippeway Chief
Wesh-Cubb, A Chippeway Chief
Wesh-Cubb, A Chippeway Chief

Wesh-Cubb, A Chippeway Chief

Artist (American, 1799 - 1858)
Artist (American, 1785 - 1862)
Author (American, 1785 - 1859)
Author (American, 1793 - 1865)
Publisher (American)
Date1838
Mediumlithograph on paper, hand-colored
Dimensions20 x 14 1/8 inches (50.8 x 35.9 cm)
Credit LinePurchase of the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1977
Object number91.110.1
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionThis print is from McKenney-Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America. SMA's bound in 3 volumes, 11.88.1.A-C. It is an earlier edition than the on this print is taken from. Greenough/ Bowen edition.
Label TextLewis originally painted a portrait of Weshcubb at the Treaty of Prairie du Chien, in Wisconsin, 1825. King made a copy in oil for Thomas L. McKenney’s Indian Gallery. That image was used to make this lithograph for a publication on Indians, written by McKenney and James Hall. The authors wrote that Weshcubb was a “just and good man.”
ProvenancePurchased December 31, 1977 through (Buck Saunders Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona) by the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art
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