Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Caravan En Route
Alternate Title:
William Drummond Stewart's Caravan
Image View:
Overall view without frame
Creator:
Alfred Jacob Miller (American painter, 1810-1874)
Location:
repository: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States) 006.2013
Location Note:
5600 Mayflower Hill; Lunder Collection
GPS:
44.565-69.660833
Date:
ca. 1850 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Nineteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
54.61 cm (height) x 121.92 cm (width)
Subjects:
animal; business, commerce and trade; landscape; Native North Americans; fur trade
Description:
In 1837 Miller traveled from New Orleans to the Rocky Mountains with his lifelong friend and patron, the Scottish hunter William Drummond Stewart. In this scene, which Miller based on sketches made during the journey, the artist recorded Stewart’s extensive entourage and baggage caravan traversing an open plain en route to the annual fur trade rendezvous on the Green River, in present-day Wyoming. Drummond himself appears as a gallant figure riding a white horse in the central foreground. (Source: Colby Museum of Art [website]; http://www.colby.edu /museum/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-MILLERA-CR-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Caravan En Route