Lot 50: JOHN RICHARD COKE SMYTH 1808 - 1882

JOHN RICHARD COKE SMYTH 1808 - 1882 ZITA, A HURON INDIAN; HURON INDIAN; INDIANS BARTERING; MOOSE HUNTER four works, one illustrated, each titled lower right hand-coloured lithographs first two 35.6 by 25.4 cm.; the last two approx. 25.4 by 35.6 cm. first two approx. 14 by 10 in.; the last two approx. 10 by 14 in.

Private Collection, Ontario

Coke Smyth came to Canada in 1838 as the drawing master to the daughter of the Earl of Durham. He published Sketches in the Canadas, an album of 23 hand-coloured lithographs, dedicated to the Earl in 1839.

In 1968, the Royal Ontario Museum published a facsimile edition through Charles J. Musson, Toronto. The lithographs in this lot correspond to the numbers 9, 10, 18 and 22 in the album.