Two Volumes. With 180 color lithograph plates and colored maps, one folding. Large (8vo) 25.2x17 cm (10x6¾"), publisher's red cloth pictorially stamped in black and gilt, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Catlin's Letters and Notes on...North American Indians, originally published in 1841. This edition with striking color plates; the first edition had uncolored plates. Catlin traveled through the West in the 1830's, painting portraits of Indians and recording their habitats, weapons, rituals, ceremonies, etc., creating during that decade an "Indian Gallery" of great renown. After taking the entire gallery to England, Catlin published his "Letters & Notes," using text from a series of articles he had written for the New York Commercial Advertiser from 1832 to 1837, and illustrating it with line-cut reductions of his original paintings. Howes C241; Wagner-Camp 84. Laid in are two advertising plates with color reproductions of two of Catlin's paintings.
Two Volumes. With 180 color lithograph plates and colored maps, one folding. Large (8vo) 25.2x17 cm (10x6¾"), publisher's red cloth pictorially stamped in black and gilt, lettered in gilt, top edges gilt. Catlin's Letters and Notes on...North American Indians, originally published in 1841. This edition with striking color plates; the first edition had uncolored plates. Catlin traveled through the West in the 1830's, painting portraits of Indians and recording their habitats, weapons, rituals, ceremonies, etc., creating during that decade an "Indian Gallery" of great renown. After taking the entire gallery to England, Catlin published his "Letters & Notes," using text from a series of articles he had written for the New York Commercial Advertiser from 1832 to 1837, and illustrating it with line-cut reductions of his original paintings. Howes C241; Wagner-Camp 84. Laid in are two advertising plates with color reproductions of two of Catlin's paintings.
.jpg "Quelle: Christie's")
Testen Sie LotSearch und seine Premium-Features 7 Tage - ohne Kosten!
Lassen Sie sich automatisch über neue Objekte in kommenden Auktionen benachrichtigen.
Suchauftrag anlegen
.jpg "Quelle: Christie's")
.jpg "Quelle: Christie's")
