Hunting the Buffalo (after a painting by Peter Rindisbacher)

Lithographer John T. Bowen (American, born England, 1801 - 1856)

Date1837

Mediumhand colored lithograph

DimensionsImage: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (14 x 21.6 cm)
Support: 7 x 10 in. (17.8 x 25.4 cm)
Frame: 9 x 12 1/2 x 1 in. (22.9 x 31.8 x 2.5 cm)

ClassificationsGraphic

Credit LineGift of Robert C. Ellis Trust, 2002

Object number2002.14.42

DescriptionNative American in elaborate buckskin outfit and feather headdress aiming bow and arrow at wounded buffalo he pursues on horseback; in the background is another group of Native Americans chasing and attacking a herd, all set within a landscape of lake surrounded by hills.

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