Harper's Weekly, Vol. XIX, No. 940
Wood engravings in this issue of Harper's Weekly range from a snowy urban New Year’s scene on the cover, to images from the American West designed by Jules Tavernier and Paul Frezeny. In 1873, those artists set out across the continent, traveling with a General Smith and planning to send images back to East coast periodicals. The issue centers on a dramatic double-page spread titled "Indian Sun Dance--Young Bucks Proving Their Endurance by Self-Torture." Tavernier and Frenzeny may have been the only white Europeans to witness this ceremony, performed at the Red Cloud Agency in Nebraska. The Museum's collection also contains Tavernier's "Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California," 1878 (2016.135), a painting that describes a Native ceremony that Tavernier attended in California—he lived in San Francisco and Monterey between 1874 and 1884.
Artwork Details
- Title: Harper's Weekly, Vol. XIX, No. 940
- Publisher: Harper & Brothers (American, New York)
- Artist: After Jules Tavernier (American (born France), Paris 1844–1889 Honolulu, Hawaii)
- Artist: After Paul Frenzeny (American (born France), 1840–1902 London)
- Artist: After Sydney Prior Hall (British, Newmarket, Suffolk 1842–1922 London)
- Artist: After Frank Henry Temple Bellew (American (born India) 1828–1885 New York)
- Artist: After Theodore Russell Davis (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1840–1894 Asbury Park, New Jersey)
- Artist: After Wilhelm von Kaulbach (German, Arolsen 1804–1874 Munich)
- Artist: After Thomas Nast (American (born Germany), Landau 1840–1902 Guayaquil)
- Artist: After Michel Angelo Woolf (American (born England), London 1837–1899 New York)
- Artist: After L. T. Stanley (American, active 1875)
- Artist: After Giuliano Zasso (Italian, Castellavazzo 1833–1889 Venice)
- Engraver: Eugène Froment (French, Sens 1844–1926 Paris)
- Engraver: Allen Measom (British, London 1841–1903 London)
- Engraver: Charles S. Reinhart (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1844–1896)
- Artist: Related author Wilkie Collins (British, London 1824–1889 London)
- Date: January 2, 1875
- Medium: Illustrations: wood engraving
- Dimensions: 16 × 11 5/16 in. (40.6 × 28.8 cm)
- Classifications: Books, Periodicals, Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, 2020
- Object Number: 2020.369.1–.10
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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