Western life : the trapper

Description

Title: Western life : the trapper
Alternative Title: Long Jakes, the Rocky Mountain Man
Creator: Deas, Charles, 1818-1867, artist
Contributor: Grozelier, Leopold, 1830-1865, lithographer.
Bufford, John Henry, 1810-1870, printer.
M. Knoedler & Co., publisher.
Published / Created: [approximately 1855]
Publication Place: 366 Broadway, N. York, Boston, and United States New York (State) New York
Publisher: published by M. Knoedler, successor to Goupil & Co. and printed at J.H. Bufford's
Abstract: Print reproduces Charles Deas's 1844 oil painting, "Long Jakes, the Rocky Mountain Man." Print depicts a bearded male trapper on horseback; horse, black with white blaze on forehead, facing right, head turned down and toward viewer; trapper's body facing right, half-turned to center, with head turned back to left; wearing a red tunic, buskskins, moccasins, spurs, and hat; carrying long gun in his right hand, reins in his left; mountains and sky in background
Description: Title from caption below image.
Date from metadata for another instance (black and white) of this print held by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas.
Extent: 1 print : 27 x 22 cm, 36 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Lithographs
Material: color lithograph ;, paper, ink, lithography, and single sided
Resource Type: still image and text
Subject (Geographic): West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic): Trappers
Hunters
Subjects: Trappers > Pictorial works
Hunters > Pictorial works
West (U.S.) > Pictorial works

Access: Public
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