Stanley's Trial of Red Jacket Chromo

after John Mix Stanely (1814-1872).
The Trial of the Red Jacket.
Chromolithograph.
Berlin: Storch & Kramer, 1871.
25 3/4" x 38 1/2" sheet.
Red Jacket (1758-1830) was a famous leader of the Seneca tribe of the Iroquois Nation. In this ambitious painting, John Mix Stanley showed the chief defending himself against a charge of witchcraft. Under his white robe is the red jacket given to him by a British officer for his help as a messenger during the American Revolution.