Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Title:
The Indians Giving a Talk to Colonel Bouquet in a conference at a Council Fire Near his Camp on the Banks of Muskingum in America, in October 1764, 1765
Date:
between 1765 and 1766
Materials & Techniques:
Gray wash and black ink with scratching out on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 15/16 x 8 1/16 inches (25.2 x 20.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, bottom right: "B West"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.798
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
smoking (activity) | writing (processes) | buttons | colonists | hats | quill | stool | log cabin | councils | wood | Indians | smoke | fire | camp (temporary settlement) | feathers | conference | trees | pipe | sword | military art
Associated Places:
Muskingum | Muskingum River | North America
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Wilde Americk - Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-09-27 - 2001-09-27)
Publications:
David Andrew Nichols, Peoples of the Inland Sea : Native Americans and newcomers in the Great Lakes Regions, 1600-1870, Ohio University Press, Ohio, fig. 1, E78.G7 N53 2018

Guilland Sutherland, British art, 1740-1820 : essays in honor of Robert R. Wark, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, Huntington Library: San Marino, CA, 1992, pp. 205-233, N6766 B73 1992 (LC)

Martin West, Bouquet’s Expedition Against the Ohio Indians, Kent State University Press, Kent State University Press, 2017, (Available online in Orbis)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7817