Ki-On-Twog-Ky, known in English as Cornplanter\u00a0(ca. 1740-1836) , was a Seneca chief originally from New York State. His father was a Dutch trader. Under his leadership, in the 1750s, the Seneca tribe, alongside the British colonists, battled the French colonists in the French and Indian War. Subsequently he aligned the Senecas with Great Britain against the American colonists in the American Revolutionary War.\u00a0 After that war, he came to New York City in the late 18th Century, seeking peace for his tribe. A European artist named F. Bartoli painted his portrait in New York City in 1796, which is currently in the possession of the New York Historical Society. In gratitude for Cornplanter’s cooperation in keeping the Seneca neutral during the Ohio Indian Wars, he was given a grant of land along the western bank of the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. An agreement between a representative of George Washington and Cornplanter guaranteed the land would be held in perpetuity by the Seneca people, but Cornplanter’s Grant was confiscated by the U.S. government in 1964 in order to construct the Kinzua Dam, which flooded the habitable portion of the land, dislocating 230 members of the tribe.<\/p>\n
Although the offered lithograph Cornplanter is based on a painting by European artist F. Bartoli executed in 1796, most of the lithographs in this series were based on 19th century paintings by Charles Bird King, an American portrait painter.\u00a0 King was employed by the War Department to paint the portraits of Indian treaty delegates visiting Washington, D.C.\u00a0 Thomas Loraine McKenney served as Superintendant of the Indian Trade Bureau, and subsequently as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for a total of 16 years, and it was his idea for the government to commission portraits of the Indians.\u00a0 King made most of the 143 paintings completed between 1822 and 1842.\u00a0 McKenney was moved by a concern that the tribes and their culture were threatened by settlers and unsympathetic state and federal government officials.\u00a0 He also sought to create a written record for future generations, collaborating with writer James Hall to produce a three-volume work on the life and culture of the American Indian, History of the Indian Tribes of North America<\/strong>, which included reproductions of King\u2019s paintings.\u00a0 Most of the original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, so the lithographs in McKenney and Hall\u2019s history constitute the only record of the likenesses of some of the prominent Indian leaders of the 19th century.<\/p>\n John T. Bowen was an artist and lithographer who operated in New York from 1834 to 1838 and in Philadelphia thereafter, until around 1856.\u00a0 Among his best-known works are the lithographs for John James Audubon\u2019s octavo edition of The Birds of America <\/strong>1840-44) and the folio plates from Audubon\u2019s The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America<\/strong> (1842-1848).\u00a0 He also published the lithographs for McKenney and Hall\u2019s History of the Indian Tribes of North America<\/strong> (1838), as well as a series of 20 views of Philadelphia after J.C. Wild and John T. Bowen\u2019s United States Drawing Book<\/strong> with 37 views of locales in the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions.<\/p>\n References:<\/p>\n Bennett, Whitman. A Practical Guide to American Book Collecting (1663-1940).<\/em>\u00a0 New York: Bennett Book Studios, 1941.\u00a0 Read Books, 2007. p. 79.<\/p>\n Field, Thomas Warren. An Essay Towards an Indian Bibliography, A Catalogue of Books, Relating to the American Indians, in the Library of T.W. Field.<\/em>\u00a0 New York: Scribner, Armstrong, & Co., 1873.\u00a0 992.<\/p>\n Groce, George C. and Wallace, David H.\u00a0 The New-York Historical Society\u2019s Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860.<\/em>\u00a0 New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969.\u00a0 pp. 70-71 (Bowen).<\/p>\n Horan, James D. The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians.<\/em>\u00a0 New York: Bramhall House, 1986.\u00a0 pp. 13-15, 314-317.<\/p>\n Howes, Wright. U.S.Iana (1650-1950).<\/em>\u00a0 R.R. Bowker, 1978.\u00a0 M129.<\/p>\n Lipperheide, Franz von. Katalog Der Freiherrlich Von Lipperheide\u00f5schen Kost\u00fcmbibliothek.<\/em>\u00a0 Mansfield Center, Connecticut: Martino, c. 1996 (reprint of 1896-1905 ed.).\u00a0 Mc4.<\/p>\n Peters, Harry T. America on Stone.<\/em>\u00a0 U.S.: Doubleday, Doran, 1931.\u00a0 pp. 103-105 (Bowen).<\/p>\n Sabin, Joseph, Wilberforce Eames and R.W.G. Vail.\u00a0 Dictionary of Books Relating to America: From Its Discovery to the Present Time, Volumes I and II<\/em>. Mansfield Center, CT: Martino, 1998 (reprint of 1868 ed.).\u00a0\u00a0 43410.<\/p>\n “Sovereign People: Ancestry in Land.”\u00a0Carnegie Museum of Natural History.\u00a0<\/em>http:\/\/www.carnegiemnh.org\/online\/indians\/iroquois\/cornplanter.html (14 August 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" F. Bartoli (after) A portrait of Cornplanter, a Seneca chief, from the folio edition of McKenney & Hall\u2019s History of the Indian Tribes of North America.\u00a0 <\/strong>This is the most extensive and accurate 19th century series of Native American portraits, with 120 lithographs based on oil paintings by the renowned artist Charles Bird King, as well as by Karl Bodmer, James Otto Lewis, P. Rhindesbacher, F. 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\nJohn T. Bowen (c. 1801-c. 1856) (printer)
\nThomas L. McKenney and James Hall (editors)
\nKi-On-Twog-Ky or Corn Plant, A Seneca Chief <\/strong>
\nfrom History of the Indian Tribes of North America<\/em><\/strong>
\nEdward C. Biddle; Frederick W. Greenough;\u00a0 Daniel Rice & James G. Clark, Philadelphia, 1836-37; 1838-42; 1844
\n18.5 x 13.5 inches overall<\/p>\n