Rare Hand Colored McKenney And Hall Portrait FOLIO Print 1837: TISH - CO - HAN
Item History & Price
C I R Q L A ROriginal antique prints, books, maps and atlasesName Of PrintTISH-CO-HAN Chief. A Delaware ChiefAuthor/ArtistThomas McKenney and James Hall: History Of The Indian Tribes Of North America.Date of PublicationPublished by E.C. Biddle circa 1837. Lithography by J.T. Bowen.Type of PrintOriginal hand colored lithograph.Size of ImageFolio: ~19" X 14".ConditionIn overall very good to excellent condition. The text pages are not available.
DescriptionWe are pleased t...o be able to offer this beautifully hand colored lithograph by Thomas Hall and James Mckenney from their seminal work entitled History Of The Indian Tribes Of North America.Mckenney and Hall's hand colored lithographs remain some of the most beautiful records of Native Indians ever produced in the nineteenth century. Oil paintings were originally done as formal studio portraits of tribal leaders and members of their parties who came to Washington DC to sign treaties. Thomas McKenney was the head of the Department Of War and oversaw the growing collection of portraits. His expenditures on the portrait gallery were not looked upon favorably in Washington, and he eventually lost his appointment. His next endeavor was to have the series of oil portraits published in folio form, and eventually in octavo form as is seen here. available by subscription. Most of the original oil paintings were burned in a tragic fire at the Smithsonian in 1865 so these lithographs have become an important historic record of tribal leaders. Thank you for looking and please be sure and look at our other auctions for other fine works by Audubon from the first as well as the 1860 editions of the Birds Of America. We also have other architectural, natural history plates as well as original maps, all guaranteed original. We do not use the eBay check-out system for invoicing so it is not necessary to email us at auction end. You will receive an email from Paypal letting you know the particular payment options available to you. We will also send you an email summarizing your winning bids along with one combined postal charge. We will email you this summary within 24 hours after the auction's end. Cirqlar is a SquareTrade seller in good standing and we will do everything we can make this a positive experience for you. We don't hold checks for clearance (we have yet to receive a bad check after over 25, 000 transactions!). Again, we will be happy to combine purchases to save on your shipping costs. News flash! We are now using USPS for our North American shipments. Shipments are easy to track, and, well, frankly we have only lost one singular package out of the tens of thousands of packages we have sent. Good job USPS! If you are one of our International friends, please contact us with your particulars (name of country, insurance requirements if any) so that we might get as accurate a quote as possible to get your purchase to you in a timely fashion. Please note that we now have (finally, mercifully) a legitimate "about me" section where you can find more information about who we are and what we do as well as more tips on collecting prints and the various types of printing techniques that have been used over the years. In addition, we have hundreds of rare prints and colorplate books, maps and atlases at set prices. We have recently been fortunate enough to acquire, for example, the original watercolors from Lewin's "Birds of Great Britain". We also have listed several prints from Shaw and Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany", flower prints from Curtis' "Flora Londinensis", P.J. Redoute's "Les Liliacees". Please also check out our ebay listings for some phenomenal Abbeville edition elephant folio restrikes of Audubon's "Birds Of America" which are what many refer to as the preeminent 20th century facsimile edition of this important work. We will be updating this frequently. We are committed to offering the very best antique prints available with over the top superior service. Click "here" for more information about us. Thank you for looking.
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