ALFRED JACOB MILLER (American, 1810-1874) Sioux Indian Eloping with a Squaw (6 1/2 x 6 in (16.5 ...

ALFRED JACOB MILLER (American, 1810-1874) Sioux Indian Eloping with a Squaw no visible signature; titled in inscriptions (upper left and on a label affixed to the frame backing) ink and wash on paper 6 1/2 x 6 in (16.5 x 15.2 cm) framed 11 x 10 3/4 x 1 in (27.9 x 27.3 x 2.5 cm) Footnotes: Provenance Major G.H. Power, Great Yarmouth, England. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, The Earliest Pictorial Survey of the Rockies: A Series of Watercolour Drawings by Alfred Jacob Miller, May 6, 1966, sale 2436. Exhibited 'A Series of Watercolour Drawings by Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist to Captain Stewart's Expedition in 1837', Chappel House, Denver Art Museum, Denver, April 15-April 24, 1966. N.B. Alfred Jacob Miller accompanied Sir William Drummond Stewart (Scottish, 1795-1871), the 7th Baronet of Murthly, on Stewart's 1837 expedition to the Rocky Mountains. The prolific collection of watercolor sketches that Miller created while on the expedition offer a unique, intimate record of the natural landscape of the American West and of early 19th-century Native American life. Miller later worked many of these sketches into full oil and watercolor paintings, many of which now hang in Stewart's ancestral home of Murthly Castle, Scotland. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing