John Ridge, a Cherokee / drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of John Ridge, a Cherokee / drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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John Ridge, a Cherokee / drawn, printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment.
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A hand-colored lithograph of John Ridge, a Cherokee writer and leader, shows a Cherokee man presented to an eastern audience during a turbulent period for his nation. Ridge, born in 1803, spent the late 1830s traveling and speaking in Northern cities as the Cherokee were pressed to give up their homelands in the Southeast. The print was drawn, printed and colored at I.T. Bowen's lithographic shop in Philadelphia and published by F.W. Greenough around 1838, which shows how portraits of Native people circulated as commercial prints. Ridge was killed in 1839 in Indian Territory by Cherokee opponents of the removal treaty he had helped sign.
| Created / published | Philada. : published by F.W. Greenough, c1838. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1830-1840.Lithographs Hand-colored 1830-1840. |
| Subjects | Ridge, John,--1803-1839. Indians of North America--1830-1840. Cherokee Indians--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 914 × 1,307 px · prints to 3 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217178 |
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