Remington Catalogue
"And With a Dexterous Cast of This Improvised Lasso Set the Loop of It about El Sabio's Neck" ( altern.), 1890
Alternate Title: "Getting El Sabio over the Canon"
Date: 1890
Medium: gouache on paperboard, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01014
Credit Line: Private Collection
Dimensions: 15 x 20" (38.1 x 50.8 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (February 1, 1890), p. 81, halftone.
Inscription: ur: Janviers Serial. -7- "Getting El Sabio over the canon."; lr: REMINGTON.; stamp on reverse: H. Scott/[illeg.] Street/New York [according to Remington's address book, H. Scott was at 92 West 134th Street]
Illustration Inscription: ll: Kurtz; lr: REMINGTON.
Provenance: Maryjane Shirreffs; (James Graham & Sons, New York, New York); Countess Vitetti, New York, New York; Robert Coe, New York, New York; present owner
Exhibitions
Frederic Remington: An Exhibition Honoring Harold McCracken.
Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, May 1 - September 30,
1974.
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Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Frederic Remington: An Exhibition
Honoring Harold McCracken. Cody, Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center,
1974.
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Card, Helen L. "Frederic Remington, 1861-1909: Artist Historian of the Old West." Scrapbooks of Remington illustrations, compiled c. 1944. Vol. 1-5. The Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, New York.
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Janvier, Thomas A. The Aztec Treasure-House: A Romance of
Contemporaneous Antiquity. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890.
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The information presented here is based on the Catalogue Raisonné edited by Peter Hassrick in 2016 and was accurate to the best of our knowledge at that time.