John T. Bowen and Charles Bird King
Se-Quo-Yah
1841-1869
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Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph with hand coloring, Sheet: 266 x 174 mm. (10 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.)
Image: 188 x 145 mm. (7 3/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Eileen Higham in Memory of her Husband, John Higham
Object Number
2004.38
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2004; Eileen Higham, Baltimore.
Bowers, Shirley H. “Captured on Canvas: McKenney-Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America.” Florida Historical Quarterly. 1993. Vol. 71, No. 4, pp. 339-347.
Flanagan, John Theodore 1906. James Hall: Literary Pioneer of the Ohio Valley.
New York, N.Y.: Russell & Russell; 1971.
Flanagan, John Theodore 1906. James Hall: Literary Pioneer of the Ohio Valley.
New York, N.Y.: Russell & Russell; 1971.
Viola, Herman J. “Portraits, Presents, and Peace Medals: Thomas L. McKenney and the Indian Visitors to Washington.” American Scene. 1970 June 11.
Viola, Herman J. Thomas L. McKenney: Architect of America's Early Indian Policy, 1816-1830. Chicago, Illinois: Sage Books, 1974.
Wiet, John Phillip. “McKenney-Hall Prints from the History of the Indian Tribes of North America.” Imprint. 1980 Autumn; 5(2):12ff.
National Museum of History and Technology. Perfect likenesses : portraits for History of the Indian tribes of North America (1836-44), D.C. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1977]
Flanagan, John Theodore 1906. James Hall: Literary Pioneer of the Ohio Valley.
New York, N.Y.: Russell & Russell; 1971.
Flanagan, John Theodore 1906. James Hall: Literary Pioneer of the Ohio Valley.
New York, N.Y.: Russell & Russell; 1971.
Viola, Herman J. “Portraits, Presents, and Peace Medals: Thomas L. McKenney and the Indian Visitors to Washington.” American Scene. 1970 June 11.
Viola, Herman J. Thomas L. McKenney: Architect of America's Early Indian Policy, 1816-1830. Chicago, Illinois: Sage Books, 1974.
Wiet, John Phillip. “McKenney-Hall Prints from the History of the Indian Tribes of North America.” Imprint. 1980 Autumn; 5(2):12ff.
National Museum of History and Technology. Perfect likenesses : portraits for History of the Indian tribes of North America (1836-44), D.C. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1977]
Signed: one
Inscribed: RECTO: in matrix: LWRC: "SE-QUO-YAH/ INVENTOR OF THE CHEROKEE ALPHABET"
