Tah-Ro-Hon, An Ioway Warrior, 1838

Not on View

Medium

hand-colored lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 52.07 × 36.83 cm (20 1/2 × 14 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Donald and Nancy deLaski Fund

Accession Number

2012.141.1

Artists / Makers

Alfred Hoffy (artist) American, 1796 - 1872

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

John T. Bowen (printer) American, born England, 1801 - 1856

Frederick W. Greenough (publisher) American, 19th century

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right on stone: A.H.

text at bottom on stone:
TAH.RO.HON / AN IOWAY WARRIOR / Published by F. W. Greenough, Philada. / Drawn Printed & Coloured at J.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment No. 94. Walnut St. / Entered According to act of Congress in the Year 1838 by F.W. Greenough in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Easern District of Penna.

Provenance

(Buddenbrooks, Boston, Massachusetts); acquired 2012 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Buddenbrooks, Inc.

Bibliography

1837: McKenney, Thomas, and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, vol. 2. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: F. W. Greenough, 1838.

1933: McKenney, James L., and James Hall. The Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs, vol. 2. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1933, pp. 158-163.

1972: Horan, James D. The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972, pp. 316-317.