Ne-Sou-A Quoit, a Fox Chief, 1837

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Medium

hand-colored lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 50.8 × 35.56 cm (20 × 14 in.)

Credit Line

Donald and Nancy de Laski Fund

Accession Number

2014.168.1

Artists / Makers

Albert Newsam (artist) American, 1809 - 1864

Charles Bird King (artist after) American, 1785 - 1862

Lehman & Duval Lithographers (printer) American, active 1834-1837

Edward C. Biddle (publisher) American, 1808 - 1893

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

text at bottom on stone:
Painted by C. B. King / on stone by A. Newsam / Lehman & Duval Lithrs. / Ne-Sou-A-Quoit / A Fox Chief / Philadelphia, Published by E.C. Biddle. / Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1837, by E.C. Biddle in the Clerks office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pa.

Provenance

(Audubon Prints and Books, Limited Partners, Vienna, Virginia); acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Audubon Prints and Books, Limited Partners

Exhibition History

2016: Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 27.

Bibliography

1837: McKenney, Thomas, and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, vol. 1. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: E.C. Biddle, 1837.

1933: McKenney, James L., and James Hall. The Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs, vol. 1. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1933, pp. 312-317.

1972: Horan, James D. The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972, pp. 190-191.