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A color print showing White men on a river boat, some playing musical instruments, as a man in the center dances.
A color print showing White men on a river boat, some playing musical instruments, as a man in the center dances.

The Jolly Flat Boat Men.

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879)

Object Details

  • Date

    1847

  • Object Type

    Prints

  • Medium

    Aquatint, engraving, stipple, etching, and roulette with applied watercolor

  • Contributors

    Engraved by Thomas Doney

    Printed by Powell & Co.

  • Dimensions

    Image: 18 13/16 x 24 in.
    Sheet: 21 3/8 x 25 13/16 in.

  • Inscriptions

    Recto:

    l.l.: PAINTED BY G.C. BINGHAM. ESQ.

    l.c.: THE JOLLY FLAT BOAT MEN

    l.c.: From the Original painting distributed by the American Art Union in 1847 / Published exclusively for the Members of that Year / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1847 by the American Art Union in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

    l.r.: PRINTED BY POWELL & CO.

    l.r.: ENGRAVED BY T. DONEY

  • Credit Line

    Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

  • Accession Number

    1971.44

  • Copyright

    Public domain

Additional details

Location: Off view
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