Chon-Ca-Pe, 1837

Not on View

Medium

hand-colored lithograph on wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.791

Artists / Makers

Albert Newsam (artist) American, 1809 - 1864

Henry Inman (artist after) American, 1801 - 1846

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

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Inscription

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.

Provenance

(Parker Gallery, London, England); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1953; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Parker Gallery

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.