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Se-Quo-Yah

John T. Bowen and Charles Bird King

Se-Quo-Yah

1841-1869

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Se-Quo-Yah

1841-1869

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]

Signed: one

Inscribed: RECTO: in matrix: LWRC: "SE-QUO-YAH/ INVENTOR OF THE CHEROKEE ALPHABET"

Artist

John T. Bowen

2000–2000

American, born England, c. 1801-c. 1856
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Artist

Charles Bird King

1784–1861

American, 1785-1862
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