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Scene from "Last of the Mohicans," Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund, (painting). Artist:  Cole, Thomas, 1801-1848, painter. Title:  Scene from "Last of the Mohicans," Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund, (painting). Dates:  1827. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  25 3/8 x 35 1/16 in. (64.5 x 89.1 cm). Inscription:  (Lower center, on rock:) T. Cole 1827 (On back, in black paint:) Scene from the Last of the Mohicans, 2 Vol, Chap. 12, T. Cole 1827 signed Description:  Against mountain scenery the tiny figures of Native Americans are gathered on a rocky ledge for their tribal ceremony. Above them a large rock formation dwarfs the figures. Subject:  Literature -- Cooper -- Last of the Mohicans Literature -- Character -- Cora Literature -- Character -- Tamenund Ethnic -- Indian Landscape -- Mountain Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1868.3 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Wadsworth, Daniel, Hartford, Connecticut 1827. Bequest of Smith, Alfred, Hartford, Connecticut 1868. References:  Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974. American Art Journal, V.1, No.2, 1969. Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 227-228. Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole Landscape into History," New Haven: Yale University Press (National Museum of American Art), 1994, pg. 44. Illustration:  Image on file. American Art Journal, V.1, No.2, 1969, pg. 43. Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, plate 33. Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole Landscape into History," New Haven: Yale University Press (National Museum of American Art), 1994, pg. 44. 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 06910245   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 06910245 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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