Se-Quo-Yah / R.T. – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique lithograph captures Se-Quo-Yah / R.T. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Se-Quo-Yah / R.T.
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Few portraits in the McKenney and Hall series belong to a subject as consequential as Sequoyah, the Cherokee man who devised a syllabary that let speakers of his language read and write it. This hand-colored lithograph, issued in Philadelphia around 1836 by F. W. Greenough, comes from the larger set of 120 portraits drawn from the Indian gallery in the War Department at Washington. Sequoyah's syllabary, developed in the 1820s, spread quickly among the Cherokee and supported a newspaper printed in both Cherokee and English. The print is a reminder that portraits of Native leaders in this period were made for a largely white audience, and that the sitter's own achievement is often absent from such images.
| Created / published | Philad. : F.W. Greenough, c1836. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1830-1840.Lithographs Hand-colored 1830-1840. |
| Notes | Another copy in the Rare Books and Special Collections Division in: History of the Indian tribes of North America, with biographical sketches and anecdotes of the principal chiefs : Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian gallery in the Department of war, at Washington / By Thomas L. M'Kenney and James Hall. Philadelphia : E. C. Biddle [etc.], 1836-1844. Published in (Rare Book copy): Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, p. 101. |
| Subjects | Sequoyah,--1770?-1843. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,166 × 1,460 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216666 |
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