Title
The last war-whoop. / Painted by A.F. Tait. ; Lith. of N. Currier, N.Y. ; Louis Maurer [on stone].
Published
New York : Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street, [c1856]
Physical Description
1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; image and text 50 x 65 cm, on sheet 58 x 76 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN BrSides Zc10 856mc: On sheet 52 x 73 cm.
Notes
Title from caption below image.
After a painting by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait that is the companian piece to "The pursuit."
Copyright 1856 by N. Currier.
Summary
Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait that depicts a trapper on horseback holding a long gun, looking down at a Indigenous man who has been shot and unhorsed from his mount. The fallen man props himself up with one hand and raises his right hand to his mouth as he shouts. He wears a leather shirt, leggings and beaded moccasins. He is leaning on his bow and his shield. There is a spear on the ground in front of him. Other white men are in the background to the right looking back at others (Indigenous persons?) who are in the far distance further to the right.
Added to Catalog
August 14, 2020
References
Currier & Ives: a catalogue raisonné, 3731
Genre/Form
Pictorial works.
Lithographs.