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Nº36 Hunting Scene III

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“This man hunter with his dog he/ saw some deer but the deer ran away/ Chas Willis” (Artist’s inscription, verso)

“This is a theme and variation on the deer-hunting scene in Nº34. In this drawing, the hunter, his bag slung across one shoulder, his rifle across the other, and his rifle guide in his hand, chases a herd of fleeing deer. Unlike the hunter pictured in Nº34 who successfully managed to wound one deer, the hunter in this drawing seems only to have managed to scare his prey.” (p.47)

William S. Wierzbowski and Helen M. Mangelsdorf in Images of a Vanished Life: Plains Indian Drawing from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1985.


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Drawings made in 1879 by students at the Hampton Institute, Virginia. Donated to the Pennsylvania Academy of ...

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Plate No: 20
Page No: 1982_X_160
Media: Pencil, ink, colored pencil on cream tagboard
Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 12 in.
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Credit line: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
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