A color print of a White man in hunting clothing lunging with a knife toward a bear that is being attacked by dogs.

David Crockett's Fight for Bear-Meat.

Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851)

Date

1839
Object Type

Prints
Medium

Aquatint and etching with applied watercolor
Dimensions

Image: 8 1/4 x 13 1/8 in.
Sheet: 11 11/16 x 17 15/16 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
u.c.: Sporting Anecdotes. / THE HARDEST FEND OFF!!
u.r.: Plate 18
l.l.: Drawn & Engraved by H. Alken
l.c.: LONDON: PUBLISHED AT 31, ELY PLACE E.C. / DAVID CROCKETT'S FIGHT FOR BEAR-MEAT / "The very first thing I knowed, the Bear was down among my dogs, and they fighting all around me. I had my big butcher in my belt, and a pair of dressed / buckskin breeches on: so I took out my knife and stood, determined, if he should get hold of me to defend myself the best I could.__I stood there for some time, and / could now and then see a white dog I had; but the rest of them, and the bear, which were dark coloured, I couldn't see at all, it was so miserable dark: and / I could only tell the biting end of him by the hollering of my dogs." ___"Scenes with Uncle Sam." No. 1. Jan.y 1839
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

1980.13
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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