Antique Print of a Chief Warrior of the Cherokee by Prichard, 1843

1843 · Native Peoples

Antique Print of a Chief Warrior of the Cherokee by Prichard, 1843

Name: Antique Print of a Chief Warrior of the Cherokee by Prichard, 1843
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12284-15
Price: 170 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1843
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 21.5 × 13 cm (8.5 × 5.1 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear, blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Reference: BG-12284-15

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Tuch-Ee, a Cherokee war chief, an original hand-colored print dated 1843 from the Histoire Naturelle de l'Homme comprenant des recherches sur l'influence des agens physiques et moraux (..) by J. C. Prichard. The caption reads "Tuch-Ee. Chef de Guerre Cherokee", with the plate number XXVII at the upper right.

The portrait is a bust view of a man with a turban wound around the head, patterned in pale blue and yellow and topped with a spray of feathers. He wears a loose fringed hunting shirt of buff tone with a necklace of dark claws or beads across the chest, and the face is tinted warm brown with a mustache. The background is left blank, with a pale blue wash behind the head.

The Cherokee are a Native American people of Iroquoian language who were among the largest and most politically organized peoples in the Southeast at the time of European colonization of the Americas, a status the nation held into the 19th century.

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