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Catlin the Artist & Sportsman Releiving [sic] One of His Companions from an Unpleasant Predicament During his Travels in Brazil

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Photography by Edward C. Robison III
Catlin the Artist & Sportsman Releiving [sic] One of His Companions from an Unpleasant Predicament During his Travels in Brazil
Photography by Edward C. Robison III

Catlin the Artist & Sportsman Releiving [sic] One of His Companions from an Unpleasant Predicament During his Travels in Brazil

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, 2014.2.5
Accession number 2014.2.5
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 Bold Sqre Chester
recto, l.c.: CATLIN THE ARTIST & SPORTSMAN RELEIVING ONE OF HIS COMPANIONS FROM AN UNPLEASANT PREDICAMENT DURING HIS TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. / This man strayed from the encampment and alone attacked a troup of 200 or more Piccaries, when having expended his powder he was compelled to retreat into a fallen tree crying murder. Catlin ran to his rescue with his Colt's Revolver / when after knocking over three of the leaders of the beseiging party suddenly, the rest took to their heels only leaving their dead upon the field