Skip to content

Home
Search
Your album
Learn more

Images

Indians on the War Path

Image source: The Walters Art Museum | CC0 1.0

Start Zooming Stop Zooming

Current search
Add To Album

Date

1858-1860

Artist

Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874)

Collection

Walters Art Museum

Image Link

http://art.thewalters.org/detail/4246

Description

"When a tribe has a grievance either through loss of any of their men, or of depredations committed against them, the chiefs summon their young warriors, arm, dress, and paint themselves elaborately and set out on the war path. All this threatens mischief, and it is by no means a pleasant thing to meet them under such circumstances, unless you have an able escort. Revenge (one of the strongest passions of an Indian) is a powerful incentive, blinding their reason and exciting their savage appetite for blood." A.J. Miller, extracted from "The West of Alfred Jacob Miller" (1837).
In July 1858 William T. Walters commissioned 200 watercolors at twelve dollars apiece from Baltimore born artist Alfred Jacob Miller. These paintings were each accompanied by a descriptive text, and were delivered in installments over the next twenty-one months and ultimately were bound in three albums. Transcriptions of field-sketches drawn during the 1837 expedition that Miller had undertaken to the annual fur-trader's rendezvous in the Green River Valley (in what is now western Wyoming), these watercolors are a unique record of the closing years of the western fur trade.
(Released under the GNU Free Documentation License)
Inscription: [Monogram] Lower left: AJMiller; [Number] Lower left: 45 (?) 43(?)
Medium: watercolor on paper.
Credit line: Commissioned by William T. Walters, 1858-1860.

Image Licence

CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image source: The Walters Art Museum

Location

Green River Valley Lakes, Wyoming, USA

Country

Medium

Tags

Travel
War
People
Horses

Category

People & Society

Glossary
Search tips

© 2024 Watercolour World | Technology by The Museum Platform

© 2024 Watercolour World | Technology by The Museum Platform