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Wi-Jun-Jon - The Pigeon's Egg Head Going to Washington: Returning to his Home, 1837/39. Hand-colored lithograph in black and brown, with opaque white watercolor and selective glazing, on ivory wove paper.
Hand-colored lithograph in black and brown, with opaque white watercolor and selective glazing, on ivory wove paper · Sheet: 44.2 × 30.4 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Wi-Jun-Jon - The Pigeon's Egg Head Going to Washington: Returning to his Home
- Artist
- George Catlin American, 1796-1872
- Date
- 1837/39
- Medium
- Hand-colored lithograph in black and brown, with opaque white watercolor and selective glazing, on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 44.2 × 30.4 cm (17 7/16 × 12 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Norman and Virginia Bobins
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1796–1872
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.