The negro boy, arms whirling wide in the air, shot over the side of the cliff

The negro boy, arms whirling wide in the air, shot over the side of the cliff
The negro boy, arms whirling wide in the air, shot over the side of the cliff

The negro boy, arms whirling wide in the air, shot over the side of the cliff

Date1890
Artist (American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"In the Valley," by Harold Frederic, in Scribner's Magazine, January 1890
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionssheet: 16 × 11 in. (40.6 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1915
Object number1915-8
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThis historical novel centers on characters living in the Mohawk Valley in the late 18th century when the area—home to the Iroquois Confederacy—was contested by colonial English and French political factions.
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