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Scene on "Big Sandy" River

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Date

1858-1860

Artist

Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874)

Collection

Walters Art Museum

Image Link

http://art.thewalters.org/detail/20884

Description

"The sketch may be said to represent a small slice of an Indian paradise; - Indian women, horses, a stream of water, shade trees, and the broad prairie to the right, on which at times may be seen countless herds of Buffalo, Elk, and deer." 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: 13
Medium: watercolor heightened with white on paper.
Credit line: Commissioned by William T. Walters, 1858-1860.

Image Licence

CC0 1.0

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Image source: The Walters Art Museum

Location

Big Sandy River, Green River, Wyoming, USA

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Horses
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Rivers

Category

Travel & Transport

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