Indian Elopement

This would appear to be the preliminary study for the Walters commission of the same title (CR# 479B). It may have been inspired by Indian abduction scenes that were being produced by the artist’s contemporaries like John Mix Stanley of Washington, D.C. (Hassrick/Besaw, 207)

Peter H. Hassrick

Artist

Alfred Jacob Miller

Date

ca. 1858

Catalogue Number

479

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Inscriptions

LR: AJM; LR: Indian Elopement

The artist; by descent to Mrs. Laurence R. Carton; present owner by gift