Catlin's Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe 2 Volume Set
With his North American Indian Collection

An American artist's two-volume account, published in 1848, of exhibiting his collection of Native American paintings and artefacts in Europe.

George Catlin (Author)

9781108070157, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 23 January 2014

712 pages, 24 b/w illus.
22.6 x 14.2 x 4.3 cm, 0.91 kg

The American artist George Catlin (1796–1872) was fascinated by the indigenous people of his homeland and spent many years living among them, painting them, and collecting their artefacts. In 1839 he took his vast collection to Europe to exhibit it, and he also toured with groups of visiting Native Americans. This illustrated two-volume account of his experiences was published in 1848. Volume 1 discusses such events as introducing a group of Native Americans to Queen Victoria. The appendices feature press reviews and a catalogue of the collection. Volume 2 covers travels with visiting Native Americans to Dublin, and later Paris, where Catlin staged another exhibition and met King Louis Philippe. Catlin's earlier account, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians (1841), is also reissued in this series, along with two later books for children about life among various tribes.

Volume 1: 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. Volume 2: 17. Arrival of fourteen Ioway Indians in London
18. Character of the doctor
19. Kind reception at Mr Disraeli's
20. The doctor and Jim visit several churches
21. Indians' remarks on the Zoological Gardens
22. The Ioways in Vauxhall Gardens
23. Newcastle-on-Tyne
24. Arrival in Dublin
25. The author arrives in Paris
26. Indians at Madame Greene's party
27. La Morgue
28. Eleven Ojibbeway Indians arrive from London
29. Indians' visit to the palace of St Cloud
30. The author leaves his collection in the Louvre
31. The author returns to his little children in Paris
Appendices.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]