"A Chippeway Widow" McKenney and Hall Lithograph

Item Details

An antique, hand-tinted McKenney & Hall folio lithograph titled A Chippeway Widow. This portrait print was published by Frederick W. Greenough, Philadelphia 1838. The lithograph illustrates an Ojibwa widow in dark blue and yellow clothing, seated on a stone, with her former husband’s personal effects and clothing in her arms. Print is double matted in tan and burgundy under glass housed in a deep, gilded wood frame with hanging wire to the verso. Below the image is the title and text: ‘Published by F.W. Greenough Philad. Drawn Printed & Coloured at LT. Bowen’s Lithographic Establishment No. 94 Walnut St. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1838 by F.W. Greenough in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Penn.”

This historical print was originally part of the book set, History of the Indian Tribes of North America, a collection of lithographic and chromolithographic plates commissioned by Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859), Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the War Department from 1824-1830. James Hall (1793-1868) provided the text for Native History of the Indian Tribes of North America, published between 1838 and 1844.

Condition

- a few light marks under glass; some finish missing on frame top.

Dimensions

- frame dimensions. Visible art is approximately 11.75" wide by 17.5" tall.

Item #

17CIN305-104