A Native American widow sits beneath a tree hung with her dead husband's weapons, keeping vigil while a storm gathers and a volcano smokes behind her. Joseph Wright of Derby gave her classical drapery but painted her headband, quilled cords and buffalo robe from authentic objects. It was shown at his solo exhibition in London in 1785, possibly the first in England.
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The buffalo robe is decorated on its skin side, one of several details showing that Wright worked from genuine objects from as far west as the upper Great Lakes.
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