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

    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

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