Spring Frog, a Cherokee chief / drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowens Lithographic Establishment. – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: Spring Frog, a Cherokee chief / drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowens Lithographic Establishment., preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Spring Frog, a Cherokee chief / drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowens Lithographic Establishment.
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Spring Frog, a Cherokee chief, is the subject of this colored lithograph, drawn and printed at I.T. Bowen's establishment in Philadelphia and published by F.W. Greenough around 1836. Portraits like this were popular in the 1830s, when American audiences bought images of Native leaders in their dress, and the costume was often rendered with close attention as a record of appearance. The print dates to a period when the Cherokee were under growing pressure to give up their homelands in the southern Appalachians, a region that includes the land along today's Blue Ridge Parkway. Its catalog tags focus on clothing and dress, so the costume is the best place to start looking.
| Created / published | Philada. : published by F.W. Greenough, c1836. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1830-1840.Lithographs Color 1830-1840. |
| Subjects | Spring Frog. Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--1830-1840. Cherokee Indians--Clothing & dress--1830-1840. Tribal chiefs--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 898 × 1,315 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217184 |
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