Object Record
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Metadata
Catalog Number |
1968.16.5.2 |
Object Name |
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Description |
"The Captain's Cabin," 1947, woodcut by A. Ross Pittman. See also 1968.16.5.1, the original drawing for this print. Inscribed, bottom left, in pencil: "The Captains Cabin Corner Fort Nashboro Nashville Tenn. restored." Signed lower right, in pencil: A. Ross Pittman Dr. A. Ross Pittman was a neuropsychiatrist and former medical missionary in India. Pittman took up printmaking in the 1936 as a hobby, and studied under George A. Bradshaw at the School of Industrial Arts in Trenton, New Jersey. This drawing depicts Fort Nashborough, the stockade established in early 1779 in the French Lick area of the Cumberland River valley, as a forerunner to the settlement that would become the city of Nashville, Tennessee. The cabin depicted in the drawing was erected in memory of Capt. James Leeper, the first settler married in Nashborough (1780), killed in the Battle of the Bluff, April 2, 1781. The battle occurred during the Native American war of resistance against the occupation of Middle Tennessee by the then-young United States of America. Led by the great war leader, Dragging Canoe, a force of Chickamauga Cherokee attacked the fort at the bluffs. Fort Nashborough was the stockade established by James Robertson in 1780 that established the settlement that would eventually become Nashville, Tennessee. The cabin depicted in the drawing was erected in memory of Capt. James Leeper, the first settler married in Nashborough (1780), killed in the Battle of the Bluff, April 2, 1781. The cabin was built of logs, with 1261 cuts in the roof alone. |
Title |
The Captain's Cabin |
Date |
1947 |
Role of Creator |
Artist |
Creator |
Pittman, A. Ross |
Medium |
woodcut |
Material |
paper |
Dimensions |
H-11.937 W-13.562 inches |
Credit line |
Gift of the artist |
Place of Origin |
US |
Subjects |
Battlefields Capitols Colonialism Forts & fortifications Log buildings Log cabins Native American Settlements Tennessee |
Relation |
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