Orig. 1842 TAH-COL-O-QUOIT Lithograph w/Applied Watercolor ❦ Rice & Clark Phila.

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Original 1842 TAH-COL-O-QUOIT Lithograph w/Applied Watercolor ❦ Rice & Clark Phila.
TAH-COL-O-QUOIT
1842 Lithograph with applied watercolor
After an original painting by Charles Bird King
Published by Daniel Rice & James G. Clark. Phila.
Drawn, Printed & Coloured at John T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment, 94 Walnut St., Phila.
Dimensions (Sheet):  13 7/8"W x 20"H
As found in the collections of the
Smithsonian American Art Museum and AMON CARTER museum of American Art
Inscriptions - Recto:
l.c.: TAH-COL-O-QUOIT. \ PUBLISHED BY DANIEL RICE & JAMES G. CLARK, PHIL[A]. \ Drawn, Printed & Coloured at J.T. Bowen's Lithographic Establishment, 94, Walnut St. \ Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1842 by J.T. Bowen, in the Clerk's Office of the Dist[t]. Court of the Eastern Dist[t]. of Penn[a].
Commissioned by the federal government, Charles Bird King painted more than one hundred portraits of Indian delegates, representing at least twenty tribes, who visited the capital from 1821 to 1842. His work stands today as a valuable record of early Indian leaders.
TAH-COL-O-QUOIT (Rising Cloud), a Sauk warrior, is believed to have been a member of one of the numerous Native American delegations to Washington, D.C., in 1837.  There were so many portraits to be painted during that time that King enlisted George Cooke, his student, to assist.  This is a particularly elegant work.  In addition to striking face paint and decorated hair roach, Tahcoloquoit wears an elaborate metal headband.  Brass tacks ornament his leather necklace and gunstock club.  Cooke may have executed the portrait, but a very similar portrait sketch by King does exist.
In very good antiquarian condition with edge wear, toning and chipping - all condition issues are at margin edges, image is excellent -
sheet
edges are gilt