History Of The Indian Tribes Of North America, With Biographical Sketches And Anecdotes Of The Principal Chiefs. Embellished With One Hundred And Twenty Portraits, From The Indian Gallery In The Department Of War, At Washington. - By Thomas L. M'Kenney, Late Of The Indian Department, Washington, And James Hall, Esq. Of Cincinnati. - Vol. I.
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Responsibility Note
The text printer is named on the verso of the title page: 'London: William Wilcockson, Rolls Printing Office.'
The book is dedicated by J.M. Campbell (the publisher) to King William IV (London, April, 1837).
References
H.J. Viola, Thomas L. McKenney, Architect of America's Early Indian Policy (1974); T.L. McKenney, Memoirs (intro. H.J. Viola) (1973).
M. Twyman, 'Charles Joseph Hullmandel, lithographic printer extraordinary', in Lasting impressions, ed. P. Gilmour (1988), p.42-90, 362-7; M. Twyman, Lithography 1800-1850 (1970).
Summary Note
The frontispiece shows a 'War Dance Of The Sauks And Foxes'. The plates are portraits showing members of the Seneca, Shawnee, Osage, Chipewa, Choctaw, Creek, Sioux, Chippeway, Cherokee, Winnebago, Otto(e), Shawanoe, Sauk, Ojibway, Pawnee and Musquakee nations. Several show chiefs; four show women. All are coloured lithographs.
C.B. King's portraits of American rulers were almost all destroyed by fire in 1865.
Provenance
26 June 1838: '4 first numbers of M.r Campbell's work of the Indian Tribes' - payment of bill for £7.0.0 approved (RA Council Minutes, VIII, 418).
29 August 1838: payment of £1.15s. for a further [i.e. 5th] number passed for payment (RA Council Minutes, VIII, 435).
The front pastedown is inscribed in pencil, 'CLE', i.e. Charles Lock Eastlake RA, who served as Librarian of the Royal Academy from July 1842 to December 1844. The fact that there is no volume number on the spine suggests that by the time it was sent to the binder it had been decided not to continue the Academy's subscription for the work.
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Name as Subject
Subject
Paintings - Portraits - 19th century
Biography - Ethnology - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Lithographs - Colour printing - Hand coloring - Great Britain - 19th century
Contributors
William IV King of Great Britain, dedicatee
Charles Bird King, source artist
Charles Joseph Hullmandel, lithographic printer
William Clerk, lithographic printer
John W. Gear, lithographer
J. M. Campbell, publisher
Peter Rindisbacher, source artist
William Wilcockson, printer
Images from this book
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Richard Corbould
War Dance of the Sauks and Foxes
Hand-coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Red Jacket, Seneca war chief , 1837
Coloured lithograph
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L. Lima
Kish - Kallo - Wa, Shawnee Chief, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Mo - Hon - Go, Osage woman, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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L. Lima
Shingaba W'ossin, Image Stone , 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Push - Ma - Ta - Ha, Choctaw Warrior, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Tens - Kwau - Ta - Waw, The Prophet, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Esh - Ta - Hum - Leah, a Sioux Chief , 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Waa - Pa - Shaw, a Sioux chief, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Meta - Koosega, a Chippewa warrior, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Wesh - Cubb, a Chippewa chief , 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Little - Crow, a Sioux chief, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Se - Quo - Yah, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Haine - Hudjihini, the Eagle of Delight, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Qua - Ta - Wa - Pea, a Shawnee chief, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Payta - Koota, a Shawnee warrior, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Pa - She - Pa - Haw, a Sauk chief, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Caa - Tou - See, an Ojibwe, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Pet - A - Le - Shar - Ro, a Pawnee warrior, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Chono Ca Pe, An Ottoe chief, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Peah - Mus - Ka, a Meskwaki chief, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Ca-ta-he-cas-sa-black hoof, principal chief of the Shawnee, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Chippeway Woman & Child, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Wa-em-boesh-kaa, a Chippeway chief, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Chippewa woman and child, 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Ki-On-Twog-Ky or Corn Plant., 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Chon-Mon-I-Case, an Otto half chief., 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Naw-Kaw, a Winnebago chief., 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Wa-Na-Ta, Grand Chief of the Sioux., 1837
Coloured lithograph
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Charles Bird King
Okee-Makee-Quid, a Chippewa chief., 1837
Coloured lithograph