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FRAMED CHROMOLITHOGRAPH OF PRELIMINARY TRIAL OF A HORSE THIEF IN KANSAS CITY, JOHN MULVANY, John Mulvany (American, 1839 – 1906), Published by Clay, Cosack & Co. Buffalo, NY, 1877. Chromolithograph in giltwood/gesso frame depicting the trial of a horse thief. John Mulvany was an Irish artist best known as an artist of the American West who painted the first large scale image of General Custer''s defeat by the Oglala Sioux Indians at Little Big Horn in 1876. Mulvany''s painting Custer''s Last Rally, was finished in 1881. Mulvany also recorded the American Civil War on canvas as well as maintaining a career as a portrait painter throughout his life. An example of this chromolithograph, Preliminary Trial of a Horse Thief in Kansas City is in the collection of the National Museum of American History. - Sight: 20 1/2" high x 29 13/16" wide. Frame: 25" high x 32" wide.