Sovereign People

Cornplanter




Cornplanter (ca. 1740-1836)
E.C. Biddle, northeastern United States, 1837

Cornplanter’s portrait was painted in 1796 by F. Bartoli in New York City. Later this lithograph, based on the oil painting, was published in The History of the Indian Tribes of North America, a multivolume work by McKenney and Hall.

Lithograph: Paper, ink, paint L 50.5 x 36.5 W cm; 36026-1.