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Catlin the Artist & Hunter Shooting Buffalos with Colt's Revolving Rifle

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Photography by Edward C. Robison III
Catlin the Artist & Hunter Shooting Buffalos with Colt's Revolving Rifle
Photography by Edward C. Robison III

Catlin the Artist & Hunter Shooting Buffalos with Colt's Revolving Rifle

Artist (1796 - 1872)
Dateca. 1855-1860
MediumHand-colored lithograph
Dimensions17 x 23 in. (43.2 x 58.4 cm)
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2014.2.3
Accession number 2014.2.3
On View
Not on view
Provenancecommissioned by Samuel Colt [1814-1862], Hartford, CT, ca. 1855-1860. (William Reese Company, New Haven, CT); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2014
Markingsrecto, l.l.: G. Catlin Pinxt
recto, l.r.: On Stone & printed by J.M'Gahey Chester
recto, l.c.: CATLIN THE ARTIST & HUNTER SHOOTING BUFFALOS WITH COLT'S REVOLVING RIFLE. / He says, "with my two hired men Ba'tiste & Bogard, I took a position where a numerous herd of Buffalos were crossing a deep ravine, and being unobserved I shot down eight or ten in succession leaving their carcases / for the wolves to devour"