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- Title:
The Indians Giving a Talk to Colonel Bouquet in a conference at a Council Fire Near his Camp on the Banks of Muskingum in America, in October 1764, 1765
- Date:
- between 1765 and 1766
- Medium:
- Gray wash and black ink with scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 15/16 x 8 1/16 inches (25.2 x 20.5 cm), Image: 8 1/16 x 6 3/16 inches (20.5 x 15.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, bottom right: "B West"
Signed in brown ink, bottom left: "B West"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.798
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- buttons | camp (temporary settlement) | colonists | conference | councils | feathers | fire | hats | Indians | log cabin | military art | pipe | quill | smoke | smoking (activity) | stool | sword | trees | wood | writing (processes)
- Associated Places:
- Muskingum | Muskingum River | North America
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7817
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Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
David Andrew Nichols, Peoples of the Inland Sea : Native Americans and newcomers in the Great Lakes Regions, 1600-1870, Ohio University Press, Ohio, fig. 1, E78.G7 N53 2018 [ORBIS]
Guilland Sutherland, British art, 1740-1820 : essays in honor of Robert R. Wark, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, Huntington Library: San Marino, CA, 1992, pp. 205-233, N6766 B73 1992 (LC) [ORBIS]
Martin West, Bouquet’s Expedition Against the Ohio Indians, Kent State University Press, Kent State University Press, 2017, (Available online in Orbis) [ORBIS]