George Catlin

Catlin's Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe

Volume 1: With His North American Indian Collection

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781108069922
• ISBN-10: 1108069924
• Artikelnr.: 40307755

Autorenporträt

George Catlin was an American painter and writer. In 1823 he gave up his law practice to pursue his self-taught art, painting portraits in Philadelphia, Washington, D. C. and Albany, New York. After meeting a tribal delegation of Native Americans from the Far West he became eager to preserve the vanishing tribes and customs of the Native Americans through his art.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The author embarks at New York
2. Howling of the grizly bears
3. Letters of introduction
4. Indian collection arranged for exhibition
5. Author's illness
6. The author's wife and two children arrive
7. The author dines with the Royal Highland Society
8. Their Royal Highnesses visit the collection
9. Consequent troubles
10. Difficulty of procuring lodgings for the Indians
11. Ojibbeways visit the mayor in town-hall
12. Indians on the housetops
13. Preparations for visiting the Queen
14. A day appointed for a talk about religion
15. Exhibition rooms
16. Mr Rankin resolves to take the Indians to the provincial towns
Appendices
A descriptive catalogue of Catlin's Indian collection.