Chon-Ca-Pe
1837
Artist, American, 1809 - 1864
Printer, American, active 1834-1837
Publisher, American, 1808 - 1893
Artwork overview
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Medium
hand-colored lithograph on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 32.7 × 25.4 cm (12 7/8 × 10 in.)
sheet: 49.85 × 34.93 cm (19 5/8 × 13 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.791
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Parker Gallery, London, England); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1953; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1963
Progress of An American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963
1981
Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981
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.218-222.
1972
Horan, James D. The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972, pp. 298-299.
Inscriptions
lower right corner in graphite by unknown hand: 11x16; center verso in graphite by unknown hand: S 14319; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 38
text at bottom on stone:
Painted by C. B. King / Lehman & Duval Lithrs. / Chon-Ca-Pe / 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.
Wikidata ID
Q77008992