To-Ka-Con, a Sioux Chief, from "History of the Indian Tribes of North America"
Alfred Hoffy, American, about 1790 - 1860
John T. Bowen, Philadelphia
after Henry Inman, American, 1801 - 1846
after Charles Bird King, American, 1785 - 1862
about 1838
Handcolor lithograph on paper
Overall: 20 1/4 × 14 3/8 in. (51.4 × 36.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.958.261
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right, in image: A. H.; printed, lower center below image: TO-KA-CON / A SIOUX CHIEF.; inscribed, in graphite, lower right corner: 10-; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, upper right: Charles B. King + James O. Lewis (artists of original plates) / J. T. Bowen, Phila Lithographer (drawn, Printed + coloured by him) 1838 / McKenney, Thomas Loraine + James Hall authors of / “History of Am Indian Tribes of N. A - - - - - - -“ / (Reprint?); inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, upper right margin: Whittier File King / Goodspeed’s Boston Oct, 16, 1958
Course History
HIST 6, NAS 30, History of the American West, Ben Madley, Winter 2012
Exhibition History
Nineteenth Century American Prints, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 25-June 12, 1977.
Portraits at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 10-April 16, 1978.
Publication History
Arthur R. Blumenthal, Portraits at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1978, p. 54, no. 62.
George T.M. Shackelford, Nineteenth-Century American Prints from the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1977, p. 25-26, no. 7.
Provenance
Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 1958.
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