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The Jolly Flat Boat Men

George Caleb Bingham, Artist Thomas Doney, Artist Powell and Co., Printer American Art Union, Publisher
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The Jolly Flat Boat Men

1847

George Caleb Bingham (Artist) American, 1811-1879 Thomas Doney (Artist) American Powell and Co. (Printer) American (Publisher) American Art Union

Etching and aquatint printed in black on wove paper

plate: 23 3/8 x 27 in. 59.3 x 68.5 cm sheet: 26 x 30 3/4 in. 66.0 x 78.1 cm

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund

F72.283.262

Public Domain

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In plate, lower left: PAINTED BY G.C. BINGHAM. ESQ.; lower right: ENGRAVED BY T. DONEY.; center bottom margin: THE JOLLY FLAT BOAT MEN. / From the Original painting distributed by the American Art Union in 1847 / Published exclusively for the Members of that Year / Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1847 by the American Art Union in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.; bottom right edge: PRINTED BY POWELL & CO.

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Kennedy Gallery and Edith Cole Silberstein

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Thomas Doney; after George Caleb Bingham, The Jolly Flat Boat Men, 1847, Etching and aquatint printed in black on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, F72.283.262.

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The Jolly Flat Boat Men
The Jolly Flat Boat Men