Young Ma-Has-Kah
1837
Artist
- A. Newsam
Manufacturer
- McKenney and Hall
Printer
- E.C. Biddle, American
Object
print
Medium
Hand-colored lithograph
Accession Number
1955.100
Credit Line
Gift of Royal B. Hassrick
Charles Bird King, Young-Ma-Has-Kah, about 1837. Hand-colored lithograph; 20 1/4 x 14 5/8 in.
Denver Art Museum: Gift of Royal B. Hassrick, 1955.100
Dimensions
height: 20 1/4 in, 51.4350 cm; width: 14 5/8 in, 37.1475 cm; mat height: 20 in, 50.8000 cm; mat width: 16 in, 40.6400 cm
Inscription
Bottom center under figure: "Young Ma-Has-Kah / Chief of the Ioways / Philadelphia Published by E.C. Biddle. / Entered according to act of Congrefs [sic] in the year 1837 by E.C. Biddle in Clerks office of the District Court of the Eastern District of P(raised "a")." Bottom Left under figure: "Painted by C.B. King", Bottom Center under figure: "On Stone by A. Newsam", Bottom Right under figure: "Lehman & (illegible)"
Department
Petrie Institute of Western American Art
Collection
Petrie Institute of Western American Art
Known Provenance
Royal B. Hassrick [1917–1989], Elizabeth, CO, by 1955; Gifted to the Denver Art Museum, 1955.
