Attack by Crow Indians

Generously provided by The Walters Art Museum

This is one of the few pictures in the Walters commission that contains a portrait of Stewart. In most of them, Miller replaced the captain with a generic portrait of a trader or trapper.

Ron Tyler

Object Information
Provenance

Artist: Alfred Jacob Miller
Date: ca. 1858 – 1860
Catalogue Number: 377B
Medium: Watercolor on paper

Dimensions: 9 7/8 x 13 5/8 (25.1 x 34.6 cm)
Accession Number: 37.1940.179
Subjects: Crow Indians, Indians, William Drummond Stewart

The artist; William T. Walters, Baltimore, MD; present owner by gift