Large Antique Print of Red-Jacket, a Seneca War Chief, circa 1838

Name: Large Antique Print of Red-Jacket, a Seneca War Chief, circa 1838
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13467-6
Price: 2125 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1838
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 53.7 × 39.2 cm (21.1 × 15.4 in)
Condition: Fair. Repaired: Closed tears in margins. Age-related toning. Shows wear and soiling. Blank verso. Please study image carefully.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: New York
Reference: BG-13467-6

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

Red-Jacket, a Seneca war chief, a hand-colored lithograph from the History of the Indian Tribes of North America by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, published in Philadelphia by F.W. Greenough and drawn, printed and colored at J.T. Bowen's lithographic establishment, about 1838. The name is lettered "RED-JACKET", with "A Seneca War Chief" beneath it, and the publisher's imprint and copyright line follow.

The portrait is a half-length bust of an elderly man with gray hair swept back from a lined face. He wears a dark blue coat, a white shirt collar and a red neckcloth, and on a blue ribbon at his chest hangs a very large oval silver medal with lettering engraved on it. The coloring is soft and the coat fades out at the lower edge into the cream paper.

Red Jacket, known to the Seneca as Sagoyewatha, was a leading orator of the Seneca nation of western New York and a defender of Seneca land and tradition in negotiations with the United States. The McKenney and Hall series reproduced many portraits of such leaders who had been painted from life.

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