A color print showing White men on a river boat, some playing musical instruments, as a man in the center dances.

The Jolly Flat Boat Men.

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879)

Date

1847
Object Type

Prints
Medium

Aquatint, engraving, stipple, etching, and roulette with applied watercolor
Contributors

Engraved by Thomas Doney

Printed by Powell & Co.
Dimensions

Image: 18 13/16 x 24 in.
Sheet: 21 3/8 x 25 13/16 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.l.: PAINTED BY G.C. BINGHAM. ESQ.
l.c.: THE JOLLY FLAT BOAT MEN
l.c.: From the Original painting distributed by the American Art Union in 1847 / Published exclusively for the Members of that Year / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1847 by the American Art Union in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
l.r.: PRINTED BY POWELL & CO.
l.r.: ENGRAVED BY T. DONEY
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

1971.44
Copyright

Public domain

Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River

October 2, 2014–January 18, 2015

Navigating the West, a dynamic exhibition featuring iconic river paintings and drawings, reveals for the first time how George Caleb Bingham created his art and artistic persona at a time when American painting, like the country, was dramatically shifting.

Location: Off view

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