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Inscription

text at bottom on stone:
Qua-Ta-Wa-Pea / A Shawnoe Chief / Published by F.W. Greenough, Philada. / 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 Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penna.

Provenance

Mrs. Jefferson Patterson, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1981
The Artist as Illustrator, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, no. 29

Bibliography

1837
McKenney, Thomas, and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, vol. 1. 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. 1. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1933, pp. 168-171.
1972
Horan, James D. The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972, pp. 162-163.

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