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Douglass, Robert M. J.,
1809-1887,
artist.
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The first steamboat on the Missouri.
[graphic] /
Douglass, R.
September 25, 1841.
1 drawing:
pen and ink wash;
overall 28 x 23 cm. (11 x 9 in.)
Title from album page.
Date from album page.
Album page with pre-printed lithographic border containing a drawing and unattributed poem about the first steamboat on the Missouri from the 1838 edition of "The Token and Atlantic Souvenir." Drawing is after Joseph Andrew's engraving of the work by painter John Gadsby Chapman. Depicts two Native American men on a rock, one seated, and portrayed with a forlorn expression, and the other standing with their arms raised in an anguished pose, watching a steamboat in the distance. Poem, "The Indian's Farewell to the Missouri, on seeing the First Steamboat on its Waters," addresses the power of the white man and the steamboat as a harbinger of his usurpation of Native American territories.
Douglass, an African American artist and early photographer, was an active member of the Philadelphia anti-slavery and civil rights movement.
Forms part of: Martina Dickerson Album.
LCP exhibit catalogue: African American Miscellany p. 45.
RVCDC
Description revised 2022.
Steamboats.
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Indians of North America.
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Poetry.
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United States
Territorial expansion.
81941
Wash drawings
1840-1850.
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African American artists
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
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African American History
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Philadelphia artists.
Andrews, Joseph,
1806-1873
artist.
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Chapman, J. G.
(John Gadsby),
1808-1889
artist.
15728
Imprint
PA. Philadelphia.
1841.
Library Company of Philadelphia
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