Catlin's Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe: Volume 2
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)

9781108069939, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 January 2014

380 pages, 16 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.48 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. In Volume 2, Catlin discusses his travels with visiting Native Americans to Dublin, and later Paris, where he staged another exhibition and met King Louis Philippe. The final chapter recounts Catlin's attempt to sell his entire collection to the United States government to preserve 'all the records of this dying race'. His 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.

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]