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Inuit drawing.- Niakungitok (George) Portrait of an "Esquimaux" hunting with throwing spear, pen and

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Inuit drawing.- Niakungitok (George) Portrait of an "Esquimaux" hunting with throwing spear, pen and

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Inuit drawing.- Niakungitok (George, d. 1825) Portrait of an "Esquimaux" hunting with throwing spear, possibly a self-portrait, brush and ink, watercolour, inscribed 'George Niakungitok/ Esquimaux/ Indian/ price 6/ Drawn by Himself', mounted onto album leaf, further inscribed underneath 'Bought in Hereford when he was there/ in 1823 or 4', 114 x 90 mm (4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in), old folds, surface dirt, spotting and small losses, [circa 1823-24; bound into a copy of Edward Rae's The White Sea Peninsula, John Murray, 1881.

⁂ The Inuit artist, Niakungitok, who executed the present drawing was toured as part of an "exhibition" by Captain Samuel Hadlock (1792-1829), a whaling captain from Maine, to Berlin, Leipzig, and clearly England, between the years 1823 and 1824. Other similar original drawings by the Inuit artist are known, with examples held in the Linden Museum, Stuttgart, and the Universitätsbibliothek Leoben, Austria.

Provenance: Private collection, UK

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Inuit drawing.- Niakungitok (George) Portrait of an "Esquimaux" hunting with throwing spear, pen and

Name: Inuit drawing.- Niakungitok (George) Portrait of an \"Esquimaux\" hunting with throwing spear, pen and
SKU: 148389717
Price: 3500 GBP
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