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

Work Record ID: 
356
Reproduction Record ID: 
356
Work Class: 
landscapes (representations)
Work Type: 
print
Title: 
Magnificent clay bluffs, 1800 miles above St. Louis
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 4.75 in (7.94 x 12.07 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: 
Grand Dome (N.D.)
Location Type: 
creation site
Repository: 
Archives and Rare Books Library, University Libraries, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Repository Type: 
current repository
ID Number: 
41
ID Number Type: 
plate number
ID Number: 
370
ID Number Type: 
standard number
ID Number: 
ARB RB E77.C4 1842 v.1
ID Number Type: 
call number
Style Period: 
Art, American--19th century
Style Period: 
realism
Culture: 
American
Subject: 
Catlin, George, 1796-1872
Subject: 
Upper Missouri River--Views
Subject: 
West (U.S.)--In art
Subject: 
Soil erosion
Subject: 
Cliffs
Subject: 
Batiste, Jean
Subject: 
Bogard, Abraham
Subject: 
Canoes and canoeing
Subject: 
Deer
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. I, pp. 76, 78. Caption from Truettner catalog of Catlin's Indian Gallery. Entry from Catlin's 1848 catalog reads, "View on Upper Missouri--Magnificent Clay Bluffs, 1800 miles above St. Louis; stupendous domes and ramparts, resembling some ancient ruins; streak of coal near the water's edge; and my little canoe, with myself and two men, Bogard and Batiste, descending the river." Originally painted in 1832 (Truettner, 1979, p. 246).
Reproduction Rights Statement: 
(c)University of Cincinnati Digital Press 1997
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