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Source Description
Darley was primarily known as an illustrator in the 19th century. He worked for "Harper's Monthly" and numerous famous authors of the day, including James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. In the 1840s he signed a contract with Edgar Allan Poe to work on his journal the "Stylus." The project never materialized, but he did provide illustrations to Poe's short story "The Gold Bug." Darley is known to have produced lithographs of Native Americans; this may be a study for one of these prints.
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Document identity
localId
36370
label
Indians on the Trail
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
3
Source metadata
id
36370
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Indians on the Trail
description
Darley was primarily known as an illustrator in the 19th century. He worked for "Harper's Monthly" and numerous famous authors of the day, including James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. In the 1840s he signed a contract with Edgar Allan Poe to work on his journal the "Stylus." The project never materialized, but he did provide illustrations to Poe's short story "The Gold Bug." Darley is known to have produced lithographs of Native Americans; this may be a study for one of these prints.
provenance
William T. Walters [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest
date
Before 1878
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
drawings (visual works)
imageCount
3
pageCount
3
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
27.6
height
38.6
dimensionsRaw
H: 10 7/8 x W: 15 3/16 in. (27.6 x 38.6 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] Lower right: F.O.C. Darley. fecit
med
ink on paper
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6799
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EAN
exhibition_ids
2703
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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7ce22605e88944c3
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no
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no
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2
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photo
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4228f335d1b1bf28
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no
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no
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3
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photo
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e571a212ffb9d052
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no
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no