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George Catlin: English: Buffalo hunt   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
George Catlin  (1796–1872)  wikidata:Q455133 s:en:Author:George Catlin q:bg:Джордж Катлин
 
George Catlin
Alternative names
G. Catlin; Geo. Catlin; George Caitlin; George Bruce Catlin; Catlin
Description American painter, artist, lawyer and writer
Date of birth/death 26 July 1796 Edit this at Wikidata 23 December 1872 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Wilkes-Barre Jersey City
Work location
Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Buffalo, Washington
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q455133
Title
English: Buffalo hunt
Description
English: Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America.
  • From Drawings and Notes of the Author, made during Eight Years' Travel amongst Forty-Eight of the Wildest and Most Remote Tribes of Savages in North America.
  • London: Geo. Catlin, Egyptian Hall; text printed by C. and J. Adlard, 1844.
    One from 25 fine hand-colored lithographed plates after Catlin, lithographed by Day and Haghe, each heightened with gum arabic.
Date 1844
date QS:P571,+1844-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium hand-colorized lithographs
Object history Provenance: : Sotheran's paper label on pastedown; Maxine and Joel Spitz, Chicago (bookplate).
Notes

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 20 pages of text and the plates colored, with printed captions. Catlin himself published the very scarce first colored issue with the plates printed on full sheets of paper, unmounted. Although Catlin planned on producing a series of thematic portfolios reproducing images from his Indian Gallery, the publication overextended his resources. The publication of his North American Indian Portfolio was taken over by Henry Bohn.

"These beautiful scenes in Indian life are probably the most truthful ever presented to the public" (Field).

  • Catlin's eight years of field research and painting of forty-eight tribes produced this immensely rich record of Native Americans. "The history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy the lifetime of one man, and nothing short of the loss of my life shall prevent me from visiting their country and becoming their historian" (Preface).
  • Abbey Travel 653; Field 258; Howes C-243; Sabin 11532; Wagner-Camp-Becker 105a:1; William S. Reese, "The Production of Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio, 1844-1876," unpublished paper; Schwerdt I, p.100 and IV, p.21.
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5546017
Other versions hand-colorized lithograph in the Whitney Gallery of Western Art (Buffalo Bill Historical Center)

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