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Alternate Title: Tighten Girths
Date: ca. 1887
Medium: pen and ink on paper
Catalogue Number: 00124
Credit Line: Photograph Courtesy of Sotheby's, Inc. © (2014)
Dimensions: 9-1/4 x 8-1/4" (24.7 x 20.9 cm)
Illustration: Outing (March 1887), p. 557, line engraving.
Inscription: ll: Remington.; across bottom: "Tighten girths" Page 43 MS. "Outing"/Lt.B.
Illustration Inscription: ll: Remington.
Provenance: The artist; Mr. George Markley Winemiller; [?]; (Sotheby's, New York, New York, December 5, 1985), present owner
Bibliographies
McCracken, Harold. Frederic Remington: Artist of the Old West. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1947.
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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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Sotheby's. Important American Paintings, Drawings and
Sculpture. New York, sale 5407 (December 5, 1985).
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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.
