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Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820
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]
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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]


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