Description The North American Indians by George Catlin.
Volume 1 ISBN 978-1582188683 Volume 2 ISBN 978-1582188690..
The North American Indians features fifty-eight Letters and 320 engraved color illustrations from the author\'s original portraits, all in a two-Volume set.
He sketched and painted hundreds of portraits, village scenes, religious rituals and games and wrote of his encounters with these fascinating people as he worked.
Catlin traveled throughout the American West from 1832 to 1840.
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. and Albany, New York.
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In 1823 he gave up his law practice to pursue his self-taught art, painting portraits in Philadelphia, Washington, D.
George Catlin was an American painter and writer.
Both Volumes contain 320 color illustrations digitally reproduced from the John Grant 1926 edition. 392 pages with full color digital reproductions of all the plates.
Volume one of two.
Description The North American Indians by George Catlin
