Series of three proof, possibly trial, prints after plates from the seminal work about early 19th-century Native American culture containing 117 portraits, several after paintings by Charles Bird King. Depicts No. 3 "Mo-Hon-Go, An Osage Woman"; No. 4 Shar- I-Tar-Ish, A Pawnee Chief; and No. 6 "Se-Quo-Yah, Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet." Plates possibly trials for the Rice & Rutter edition published 1865-1870., Title supplied by cataloger., Contain registration marks., Contain plate numbers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.63a & 64a&b]
Series of three proof, possibly trial, prints after plates from the seminal work about early 19th-century Native American culture containing 117 portraits, several after paintings by Charles Bird King. Depicts No. 3 "Mo-Hon-Go, An Osage Woman"; No. 4 Shar- I-Tar-Ish, A Pawnee Chief; and No. 6 "Se-Quo-Yah, Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet." Plates possibly trials for the Rice & Rutter edition published 1865-1870., Title supplied by cataloger., Contain registration marks., Contain plate numbers., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1865]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Specimens Album [P.9349.63a & 64a&b]
