"As We Went Onward We Discovered How Considerable the City Was That Here Lay Submerged"
Alternate Title: Afloat on a Lake
Date: ca. 1890
Medium: gouache on illustration board, b/w
Catalogue Number: 01013
Credit Line: The Brinton Museum, Big Horn, Wyoming
Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 21 1/8" (36.83 x 53.66 cm)
Illustration: Harper's Weekly (January 25, 1890), p. 65, halftone.
Inscription: ll: REMINGTON-
Illustration Inscription: ll: REMINGTON-; lr: KURTZ
Provenance: (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York); Bradford Brinton; Helen Brinton, 1936; the Helen Brinton Trust, 1961; 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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Janvier, Thomas A. The Aztec Treasure-House: A Romance of
Contemporaneous Antiquity. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890.
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National Museum of American Art. Inventory of American
Paintings. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. On-line
computer database in progress; BBHC copy for Remington's paintings
dates October 10, 1984.
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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.