Catlin, George, 1796-1872
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np05Letter--no. 56. Rock Island, Upper Mississippi
Letter--no. 56. Rock Island, Upper Mississippibook chapter 1876
- Summary
- George Catlin was an American lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American frontier. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. His early work included engravings, drawn from nature, of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York State. Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D. Colden's Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, published in 1825, with early images of the City of Buffalo. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
- Born
- 1796 [2]
- 1796-07-26 [6]
- Birth Place
- Wilkes-Barre, Pa. [2]
- Wilkes-Barre [6]
- Died
- 1872 [2]
- 1872-12-23 [6]
- Death Place
- Jersey City, NJ [2]
- Jersey City [6]
- Country
- United States [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- painter [6]
- artist [6]
- lawyer [6]
- writer [6]
- Educated at
- Litchfield Law School [6]
- Country of Education
- United States [6]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [6]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [6]
- Notable Names Database
- Profile [6]
- British Museum person-institution thesaurus
- Entry [6]
- Oxford Reference
- Overview [6]
- American National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [6]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. National Library of Korea
- 5. National Library and Archives of Québec
- 6. Wikidata
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