Qua-Ta-Wa-Pea, A Shawnoe Chief, 1838

Not on View

Medium

hand-colored lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 29.53 × 25.08 cm (11 5/8 × 9 7/8 in.)

sheet: 45.72 × 30.96 cm (18 × 12 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Jefferson Patterson)

Accession Number

2015.19.2778

Artists / Makers

Albert Newsam (artist) American, 1809 - 1864

Henry Inman (artist) American, 1801 - 1846

Charles Bird King (artist) 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

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

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Patterson, Marvin Breckinridge

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.