拍品描述： Native American Contemplating “Progress.” Steel. Untitled. 5 x 2.5 inches.Warrior stands with horse overlooking a valley below through which a locomotive steams down the track while a buffalo hunt ensues. This type of vignette represented a popular theme for bank note engravings in the 1850s, as it corresponded to the sentiments of the settlers that the native peoples should be instructed in their own definitions of civilized life. Such images represented the clashing of cultures and while the authors of the vignettes almost certainly considered their own culture to be the undeniably superior one, the engravings were often thoughtfully accomplished, as here. When we sold the steel and copper engravings of American Bank Note Company a decade ago, it was the introduction of a new collectible into the marketplace. At the time, the Native American vignettes were among the most popular. Today, such engravings rarely reappear in the market.From our (ANR) sale of August 2006, lot 1096.