Name/Title
Indian Lithograph, Two Indians by Tree, H.B. Mollenhausen, Artist, 1868Entry/Object ID
AM1977.1.268Scope and Content
Indian Lithograph, Two Indians by Tree, H.B. Mollenhausen, Artist, 1868. Color lithograph by Sarony, Major and Knapp, NY. It is perhaps a page removed from a book. The print is in color and pictures 2 Native Americans, one seated, by a dead tree upon which they have hung a quiver. The men are wearing cloth wrapped skits and blued "bath robe" type tunics. They are wearing narrow headbands, Tribe not specified.
H.B. Mollenhausen is one of the German artists noted for their intrepretation of the American Indian through visits to the American West. He traveled to the Rocky Mountains with Prince Paul of Wurttemberg in 1851, then he joined the Whipple expedition to California, and made a third trip to the Southwest. Besides his artwork, he wrote 45 novels or short stories. The original Mollhausen artwork was largely lost, having burned during the conquest of Berlin in World War II.
Pasted to the back of the lithograph is a pen and ink type illustration labeled The Village School--The Smile. With the caption "Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee at all his jokes for many a joke had he." Goldsmith--The Deserted Village.Lexicon
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