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

Work Record ID: 
476
Reproduction Record ID: 
476
Work Class: 
landscapes (representations)
Work Type: 
print
Title: 
Dragoons on the march, with buffalo breaking through their ranks
Title Type: 
preferred title
Title: 
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians.
Title Type: 
collective title
Measurements: 
4.725 x 6.575 in (12.00 x 16.70
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
Repository: 
Archives and Rare Books Library, University Libraries, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Repository Type: 
current repository
ID Number: 
158
ID Number Type: 
plate number
ID Number: 
461
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: 
Indians of North America--19th century
Subject: 
Indians in art
Subject: 
West (U.S.)--In art
Subject: 
Bison, American
Subject: 
Bison, American, in art
Subject: 
Prairies
Subject: 
Buffalo hunting
Subject: 
Horseback riding
Subject: 
Horses
Subject: 
Southern Great Plains--Views
Subject: 
Comanche (Nemene)
Subject: 
Cavalry
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. 57. Caption from Truettner catalog of Catlin's Indian Gallery. Catlin's descriptions of Manners & Customs Plate 157 (Gallery No. 488), Plate 158 (Gallery No. 461), Plate 160 (Gallery No. 499), Plate 161 (Gallery No. 500), and Plate 162 (Gallery No. 501) as well as Portfolio Plate 3 (Gallery No. 499) and Plate 4 (Gallery No. 501) fall within his description of a location between the "False Washita" and the Comanche Village (Vol. II, p. 53, 57). According to Truettner (Truettner, 1979, p. 31), the Comanche Village was located at the base of the Wichita Mountains. This appears to be in the vicinity of Fort Sill and between the Washita and Red Rivers. What Catlin Calls the False Washita may be what is now called the Clear Boggy Creek or River which parallels the Washita to the east. While the events depicted in the above plates did not occur in the same place, they have been located on the map at a single image site a little north of the Comanche Village and east of the Washita River. It is designated Southern Great Plains. Entry from Catlin's 1848 catalog reads, "Dragoons on the March, and a band of Buffalo breaking through their ranks, in Texas, 1835." Originally sketched in 1834 and painted in the period 1834-1835 (Truettner, 1979, p. 276).
Reproduction Rights Statement: 
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