Detail View: George Catlin: The Printed Works: Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians.

Work Record ID: 
565
Reproduction Record ID: 
565
Work Class: 
landscapes (representations)
Work Type: 
print
Title: 
"Pike's Tent," the highest bluff on the Mississippi
Title Type: 
preferred title
Title: 
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians.
Title Type: 
collective title
Measurements: 
3.125 x 4.775 in (7.94 x 12.13 cm)
Measurement Type: 
dimensions
Material: 
paper (fiber product)
Material Type: 
support
Technique: 
engraving (printing process)
Creator: 
Catlin, George, 1796-1872
Creator Dates: 
1796-1872
Creator Nationality: 
American
Creator Type: 
personal name
Creator Role: 
painter
Date: 
1842
Location: 
Queen's Bluff (Minn.)
Location Type: 
creation site
Repository: 
Archives and Rare Books Library, University Libraries, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Repository Type: 
current repository
ID Number: 
249
ID Number Type: 
plate number
ID Number: 
318
ID Number Type: 
standard number
ID Number: 
ARB RB E77.C4 1842 v.2
ID Number Type: 
call number
Style Period: 
Art, American--19th century
Style Period: 
realism
Culture: 
American
Subject: 
West (U.S.)--In art
Subject: 
Cliffs
Subject: 
Canoes and canoeing
Subject: 
Mississippi River--Views
Subject: 
Queen's Bluff (Minn.)--Views
Related Work: 
Catlin, George, 1796-1872. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians. Third Edition. London: Published for the Author by Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street, 1842.
Relation Type: 
larger entity
Description: 
Described in Vol. II, p. 143. Caption from Truettner catalog of Catlin's Indian Gallery. Entry from Catlin's 1848 catalog reads, "'Pike's Tent,' the highest bluff on the river, Upper Mississippi." Probably sketched originally in 1835 and painted in the period 1835-1836 (Truettner, 1979, p. 234). Location per U.S. Corps of Engineers.
Reproduction Rights Statement: 
(c)University of Cincinnati Digital Press 1997
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