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Using Biblical and classical imagery to justify and heroicize westward expansion, Bingham portrays Rebecca Boone in the pose of a Madonna, a popular domestic ideal of the time, and she is completed in interpretive ways with a faithful hunting dog and her husband leading a noble charger. She represented all pioneer women who by the mid-nineteenth century were idealized and celebrated.

Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap — Using Biblical and classical imagery to justify and heroicize westward expansion, Bingham portrays Rebecca Boone in the pose of a Madonna, a popular domestic ideal of the time, and she is completed in interpretive ways with a faithful hunting dog and her husband leading a noble charger. She represented all pioneer women who by the mid-nineteenth century were idealized and celebrated.
Photo Credit: By George Caleb Bingham - 1852 - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23197838

Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap Using Biblical and classical imagery to justify and heroicize westward expansion, Bingham portrays Rebecca Boone in the pose of a Madonna, a popular domestic ideal of the time, and she is completed in interpretive ways with a faithful hunting dog and her husband leading a noble charger. She represented all pioneer women who by the mid-nineteenth century were idealized and celebrated.

Rebecca Boone in the pose of a Madonna —
Photo Credit: By George Caleb Bingham - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23197838

Rebecca Boone in the pose of a Madonna

From <i>Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone</i> by Cecil B. Hartley (1859)

"Capture of Boone and Stuart" — From Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone by Cecil B. Hartley (1859)
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"Capture of Boone and Stuart" From Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone by Cecil B. Hartley (1859)

Flag of The Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma —
Photo Credit: By Himasaram - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3535157

Flag of The Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma

Daniel Boone 1820 — Only known portrait of Daniel Boone made during his lifetime
Photo Credit: By Chester Harding - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=905939

Daniel Boone 1820 Only known portrait of Daniel Boone made during his lifetime

This is a poster for the film Dolittle. —
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This is a poster for the film Dolittle.

Dr. Dolittle - 1998 film poster — Confused man in a white medical coat, with a white stethoscope hanging from his neck, and a group of small animals
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Dr. Dolittle - 1998 film poster Confused man in a white medical coat, with a white stethoscope hanging from his neck, and a group of small animals

Doctor Dolittle — Part of the title page of The Story of Doctor Dolittle, published in 1920.
Photo Credit: By Hugh Lofting - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15963573

Doctor Dolittle Part of the title page of The Story of Doctor Dolittle, published in 1920.

Poster for 1967 film Doctor Dolittle —
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