George Catlin's North American Indians

George Catlin’s landmark visual record of the Indigenous peoples and landscapes of nineteenth-century North America was firs...

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George Catlin’s landmark visual record of the Indigenous peoples and landscapes of nineteenth-century North America was first published in London in 1841, illustrated with uncoloured engravings after paintings made during his extensive travels of the 1830s. The antique prints and maps offered in this collection come from the later 1892 edition, described bibliographically as “reprinted from the original plates”. In this edition Catlin’s earlier images were issued in colour, bringing additional vividness to portraits, ceremonies, hunting and horsemanship, villages, landscapes and everyday life among the Mandan, Blackfoot, Comanche, Ojibwe, Osage and many other peoples. Both highly decorative and historically significant, the plates preserve one of the most influential early visual records of Native American life—although one necessarily shaped by Catlin’s nineteenth-century, outsider viewpoint. Each item offered here is an original antique colour-printed plate or map from the 1892 edition.

George Catlin’s landmark visual record of the Indigenous peoples and landscapes of nineteenth-century North America was first published in London in 1841, illustrated with uncoloured engravings after paintings made during his extensive travels of the 1830s. The antique prints and maps offered in this collection come from the later 1892 edition, described bibliographically as “reprinted from the original plates”. In this edition Catlin’s earlier images were issued in colour, bringing additional vividness to portraits, ceremonies, hunting and horsemanship, villages, landscapes and everyday life among the Mandan, Blackfoot, Comanche, Ojibwe, Osage and many other peoples. Both highly decorative and historically significant, the plates preserve one of the most influential early visual records of Native American life—although one necessarily shaped by Catlin’s nineteenth-century, outsider viewpoint. Each item offered here is an original antique colour-printed plate or map from the 1892 edition.

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