Narrow Escape from a Grisly Bear

Artist
Alfred Jacob Miller
Date
ca. 1837
Catalogue Number
144
Medium
pencil with black and gray washes on paper
Inscriptions

UL: 5; UC: Narrow Escape from a Grisly [sic] Bear, Near the sources of the Platte River

Dimensions
7 x 10 1/2 in. (18.2 x 26.8 cm)
Accession Number
92.235.1
Subjects
Grizzly Bears, hunting, Platte River, William Drummond Stewart

The artist; Sir William Drummond Stewart, ca. 1839; Frank Nichols [Chapman’s, Edinburgh, June 1871]; Bonamy Mansell Power; by descent Edward Power, 1900; by descent Major G.H. Power, Great Yarmouth, England [Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, 1966]; [Schweitzer Gallery, New York, NY, 1966]; Eugene Adkins, Tulsa, OK [Sotheby Parke Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, 1980]; present owner