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McKenney & Hall. “Ki-On-Twog-Ky,
or Cornplant,” 1834 [Horan 118]. Folio edition from the
painting by Charles Bird King, with text page. Lithograph with
exquisite bright original hand color. Sheet size: 20 x 14 1/4".
Right edge of sheet is unevenly trimmed and has minor glue residue
where formerly bound into portfolio, not affecting image. Overall
fine.
SOLD.
About the subject of this superb
portrait, Horan wrote, “Red Jacket, Brant, and Cornplanter
comprised the great triumvirate of Iroquois chiefs how led their
people in the trying postwar period of the Revolution. In later years
Cornplanter became a religious zealot and a bitter enemy of Red
Jacket. In the winter of 1801–1802, he traveled to Washington
as a guest of Jefferson who became his frequent correspondent. He
died February 18, 1836, ‘aged about 100 years’ on a
reservation of over nine hundred acres in Pennsylvania.”
Ref.: James D. Horan,
The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians (New
York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972).
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