Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Caravan En Route
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Alternate Title:
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William Drummond Stewart's Caravan
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Image View:
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Detail, center, Stewart on white horse leading fur trading caravan
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Creator:
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Alfred Jacob Miller (American painter, 1810-1874)
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Location:
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repository: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States) 006.2013
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Location Note:
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5600 Mayflower Hill; Lunder Collection
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GPS:
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+44.565-69.660833
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Date:
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ca. 1850 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Nineteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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painting (visual work)
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on canvas
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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54.61 cm (height) x 121.92 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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animal; business, commerce and trade; landscape; Native North Americans; fur trade
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Description:
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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/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-MILLERA-CR-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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