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Auction 114, Lot 683

"[Lot of 3 - Native Americans]", Catlin, George

Subject: Native Americans

Period: 1848 (published)

Publication: Nord-Amerikas Indianer

Color: Hand Color

Size:
8.5 x 5.2 inches
21.6 x 13.2 cm
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These prints are from a series of very rare Swedish prints based on the work of George Catlin. In 1841, Catlin issued an account of his travels among the Indians titled Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians. Three years later he had some of his paintings made into folio prints for his North American Indian Portfolio. A few years later, an abridged Swedish edition of his Letters and Notes was published containing 23 colored lithographs that were modified versions of the prints from the Portfolio. These are amongst the most unusual and rare prints after Catlin, issued within a few years of the original Portfolio. These prints are tinted lithographs finished with original hand coloring. Includes a winter buffalo kill, natives in wolf skins stalking buffalo, and a buffalo facing a wolf pack.

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Condition: A

Fine original color, wide margins. Some light offsetting on one image, a little marginal soiling.

Estimate: $180 - $220

Sold for: $130

Closed on 3/1/2006

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