Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio

Лот 207
28.01.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1360924
Лот 207 | Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio
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$ 70 000 – 90 000
CATLIN, George (1796-1872). Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting scenes and amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America. London: [Chatto & Windus, 1875].

Extremely rare thirty-one plate, hand-colored issue of the North American Indian Portfolio, with the first printing of six new plates. “Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio is one of the most impressive books of Western Americana, ranking behind only the Bodmer atlas to Maximilian’s travels and the Edward Curtis portfolios in major illustrated works on the West. Catlin had originally hoped to create an even larger work, with four portfolios and a total of one hundred plates, but his financial mismanagement doomed the project and only one portfolio was issued” (Best of the West). That portfolio had 25 plates and was issued in the fall of 1844; soon afterwards, Catlin soon sold the copyright to London publisher, Henry Bohn. “[Bohn] kept the book in print, with several reissues, through the late 1860s, when he sold the copyright, along with the rest of his publishing empire, to the firm of Chatto & Windus. The new publishers discovered that Catlin had prepared six more lithographic stones which had never been used. These were made in 1844, when Catlin had projected more portfolios, but had sat with the printer ever since” (ibid.).

These new plates are: “Joc-O-Sot, the Walking Bear;” “Mah-To-Toh-Pah, the Mandan Chief;” “O-Jib-Be-Ways;” “Buffaloe Hunting;” “The War Dance;” and “The Scalp Dance”. The lithographs are not captioned in this issue, but were in later ones. Bennett 22; Best of the West 81; Field 258; Howes C-243 ("b" with no reference to card issue); Wagner-Camp 105a.

Folio (580 x 440mm). Printed title, 31 hand-colored lithographic plates mounted on card within ink-ruled frame, without numbering or captions (card edges uniformly chipped with sizable losses to corners, all prints very clean and brilliantly colored). Each leaf in individual window mat. Housed in two blue half morocco solander boxes. Provenance: William S. Reese, 1955-2018 (his sale, Christie's New York, 26 May 2022, lot 191).
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