Archive of three autograph letters signed from George Catlin to Captain William Shippard

by George Catlin

$6,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

Housed in a morocco backed slipcase. Three personal, handwritten letters by the artist George Catlin to his friend, Captain William Henry Shippard. During the 1830s, George Catlin, a self-taught artist, traveled the Great Plains of the American West, absorbing the ways of the Indigenous peoples of North America he found still flourishing there. Over the next decade, Catlin embarked on a journey to create a faithful visual study of the people, customs, and

• Binding: Leather

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