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    Officer in Full-Dress Unifirm Drilliing Backwoods Militia, (painting).
    Artist: 
    W., D. C., painter.
    Title: 
    Officer in Full-Dress Unifirm Drilliing Backwoods Militia, (painting).
    Other Titles: 
    Hilarious Misadventure of an Officer in Full-Dress Uniform while Drilling Motley-Clad Backwoods Militiamen, (painting).
    Dates: 
    ca. 1830.
    Medium: 
    Oil.
    Dimensions: 
    12 x 17 1/2 in. (30.5 x 44.5 cm)
    Description: 
    Primitive showing an officer in dress being upset by a large ferocious hog to the delight of militia men whom he had been drilling.
    Subject: 
    Figure group
    Occupation -- Military
    Animal -- Pig
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    United States Department of the Army, United States Military Academy, West Point Museum, West Point, New York 10996 Accession Number: 15,154
    Provenance: 
    Bequest of Craighead, Alexander McCook, Dayton, Ohio
    Remarks: 
    Title listed in Dayton Art Institute Bulletin, v. 18, no. 2 is "The Hilarious Misadventure of an Officer in Full-Dress Uniform while Drilling Motley-Clad Backwoods Militiamen."
    References: 
    West Point Museum, 1996.
    Dayton Art Inst. Bulletin, v. 18, no. 2, 1959.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 81370005
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