Alfred Jacob Miller fonds [graphic material]

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Alfred Jacob Miller fonds [graphic material]

Item ID number:

202581

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1867.

Reference:

R10514-0-4-E

Type of material:

Art, Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

202581

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Fonds includes:

41 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1867.

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Place of creation:

United States

Extent:

41 watercolours : watercolour, gouache, pen and ink over pencil.
2 albums (textual material)

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of works by Alfred Jacob Miller entitled: "No. 1. Hunting the Buffalo: Attack with Lances, 1837"; "No. 2. Approaching the Buffalo, 1837"; "No. 3. A Buffalo Rift, 1837"; "No. 4. Schim-a-co-che High Lance, a Crow Indian, 1837"; "No. 5. Indian Warrior and His Squaw, 1837"; "No. 6. Wild Horses: Throwing the Lasso, 1837"; "No. 7. Shoshonie Women: Throwing the Lasso, 1837"; "No. 8. Indian Village on the Missouri, 1837"; "No. 9. Indian Woman Making War Dress, 1837"; "No. 10. Head of a Sioux Indian, 1837"; "No. 11. Shooting Elk, 1837"; "No. 12. Skirmishing Crown Indians, 1837"; "No. 13. Ma-wo-ma Little Chief, 1837"; "No. 14. A Reconnoitre, 1837"; "No. 15. War Ground. Beating a Retreat, 1837"; "No. 16. Medicine Circles, 1837"; "No. 17. Caravan en route, 1837"; "No. 18. Camp Providers, 1837"; "No. 19. A Young Indian Mother Fording a Stream, 1837"; "No. 20. Nez Perces Indians, 1837"; "No. 21. The Grizzly Bear, 1837"; "No. 22. Indian Girls, 1837"; "No. 23. Indian Lodge, 1837"; "No. 24. Breakfast at Sunrise, 1837"; "No. 25. Herd of Elk, 1837"; "No. 26. Fort Laramie, 1837"; "No. 27. Breaking Up Camp at Sunrise, 1837"; "No. 28. The Blackfeet, 1837"; "No. 29. Hunting the Buffalo in Herds, 1837"; "No. 30. The Yell of Triumph, 1837"; "No. 31. Pawnee Indians Watching the Caravan, 1837"; "No. 32. Prairie on Fire, 1837"; "No. 33. Approaching Buffalo, 1837"; "No. 34. Pawnee Indians on the War Path, 1837"; "No. 35. Stampede by Blackfeet Indians, 1837"; "No. 36. Buffalo Hunt, 1837"; "No. 37. A Kansas Indian, 1837"; "No. 38. A Young Woman of the Flat Head Tribe, 1837"; "No. 39. The Rendez-vous near Green River Oregon, 1837"; "No. 40. A Surround, 1837". Fonds also consists of two printed volumes (one bound volume, one unbound porfolio) of explanitory text relating to the forty images in the Alfred Jacob Miller set of watercolours of Indian images in the American West in 1837. These volumes are in leather folio enclosures with gold leaf.

Provenance:

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Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874

Additional name(s):

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Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874

Biography/Administrative history:

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Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874 : Alfred Jacob Miller (born Baltimore 1810, died Baltimore 1874) studied under Thomas Sully and in Europe. He went west in 1837, and upon his return executed a set of paintings which are now in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore.

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Black and white catalogue cards are available. (Paper)

Item-level descriptions available online in Minisis. (Electronic)

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General Note:

Received from Agnes Sara Hargreaves Jardine (1877-1961), Chesterknowes, Selkirk, Scotland. Mrs. Jardine was married to Brigadier-General James Bruce Jardine (1870-1955) and had inherited the watercolours and albums from her father, Sir Alexander Hargreaves Brown(1844-1922), the 1st Baronet of Broome Hall (Capel, Surrey). In 1867 Alexander Hargreaves Brown commissioned Alfred Jacob Miller to produce 40 watercolours based on the artist's 1837 western travels.

Accompanying material note:

The artist file (705-5) contains b&w photographic reproductions of Miller watercolours held in the collections of the Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis in Missouri. The Public Archives of Canada obtained these reproductions in 1970; they are for consultation purposes only.

Citation/reference note:

Bibliographic citation: Archives Canada Microfiches Series No. 1 (Ottawa: Information Canada, 1976); Bell, Michael, Braves and Buffalo: Plains Indian Life in 1837 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).

Availability of other formats note:

Copy negatives available: C-000401 to C-000440, C-013839.

Subject heading:
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Indians of North America

Indiens d'Amérique dans l'art
Source:

Private

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1946-108 PIC
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Graphic (art)

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Box [1946-108]

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2000854991;

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A-141-01;

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Box [1946-109] A-141-01

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Box [1946-148] BK-292

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Copy negative [R10514]

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C-000401--C-000440;

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C-013839;

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Textual records

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Box [1946-148] BK-292

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