CATLIN GEORGE Catlin the Celebrated Indian Traveller and Art

Sale 2369 - Lot 290

Price Realized: $ 4,750

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

CATLIN, GEORGE. Catlin the Celebrated Indian Traveller and Artist, Firing His Colt's Repeating Rifle Before a Tribe of Carib Indians in South America. Very scarce five-stone tinted lithograph from the original Colt promotional series. 460x635 mm, wide margins. A beautiful example. [London]: Day & Son [circa 1850]

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Subtitled: "It having been reported by one of my party that I had a Medicine Gun, which would fire all day without reloading, the Men, Women & Children, assembled in front of the Chief's Lodge to get a sight of it, - when I found it necessary to make an exhibition - and arranged a target at a suitable distance whe[n I to]ok my position in front of the crowd and rapidly discharging all the chambers, and cocked the piece for a continuation, but the Chief advanced and assured me they were all satisfied, and I had better save my powder and balls, as I might want them, on a very long journey."