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Inscription

upper left corner in graphite by unknown hand: 18; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: A9361 / P60; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 2.50 / P

text at bottom on stone:
Painted by C. B. King / Lehman & Duval Lithrs. / PAYTA KOOTHA / A Shawanee [sic] Warrior / Philadelphia, Published by E.C. Biddle. / Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1836, by E.C. Biddle in the Clerks office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pa.

Provenance

(Veerhoff Galleries, Washington, DC); Mrs. Jefferson Patterson, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

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. 172-173.
1972
Horan, James D. The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972, pp. 160-161.

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