Native American Camp Scene – Trapper and Buffalo Hunters, c.1845

1845 · Native Peoples

Native American Camp Scene – Trapper and Buffalo Hunters, c.1845

Name: Native American Camp Scene – Trapper and Buffalo Hunters, c.1845
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-13682-19
Price: 290 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1845
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 23 × 30 cm (9.1 × 11.8 in)
Condition: Good. Condition report: Very good impression with fresh, well-preserved coloring. Minor foxing in margins; image area clean and bright. Wide borders intact.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Reference: BG-13682-19

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

A trapper and Plains Indians before their camp, an original hand-colored lithograph titled "Amerique du Nord, Etats-Unis", from Le Monde en Estampes: Types et Costumes des Principaux Peuples de l'Univers, published in Paris around 1845-1850 by Amedee Bedelet. The sheet is lettered "Leloir del." and "Bocquin lith.", with the printer's imprint "Imp. Lemercier Paris".

Three captions run beneath the image: "Indiens chassant le Bison", "Trappeur" and "Indiens devant leur Camp". In the center, the trapper, in a blue hunting coat, fur cap and red neckerchief, with a long rifle, faces a chief in a feathered headdress who holds out a buffalo robe. At the right, a standing man wrapped in a striped blanket and a seated man with a tomahawk and a long pipe sit before conical tipis. In the left background, mounted hunters pursue a herd of bison across a river plain below low hills. The coloring is in ochre, blue and brown tones over a tinted lithographic ground.

The plate belongs to a series of costume and ethnographic types arranged by continent and country, and it shows the fur trade and bison hunt of the American plains as French audiences of the 1840s pictured them.

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