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| Keywords: Boone by Lewis.jpg Col Daniel Boone engraving by James Otto Lewis based on a lost 1820 painting by Chester Harding In 1861 Harding destroyed the original painting which had been painted on ordinary table oilcloth and was aging poorly by cutting out the head and putting it on a new canvas Lewis's engraving is the only remaining version of the original full-length portrait This engraving accurately depicts Boone's clothing ”later depictions often inaccurately put Boone in a coonskin cap http //www people virginia edu/~mgf2j/clothes html Published October 11 1820 James Otto Lewis PD-art Salvaged head from the original full-length painting Daniel Boone Daniel Boone by Chester Harding | ||||
