McKenney & Hall hand col'd folio 1842: PAYTA-KOOTHA

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C I R Q L A R Original antique prints, books, maps and atlases Image Name PAYTA-KOOTHA. A Shawanoe Warrior. Author/Artist Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall. Date of Publication Published Philadelphia by Daniel Rice And James G. Clark 1837-44. Type of Print Original hand colored lithograph. (with completely original coloring.). Gum arabic added to accentuate features. Size of Image Folio ( 19 3/4" X 14"). Condition In overall very good to excellent condition. We will gladly provide a copy of the title page of the book from which this image originated. Description Thomas McKenney, head of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs for many years, was a champion of the Indian and fought throughout his tenure to preserve something of their quickly vanishing culture. His legacy was a gallery of portraits of the great chiefs by artists such as James Otto Lewis, Charles Bird King and George Cooke. After taking office in 1816, McKenney began to organize an archive to feature Indian artifacts. During the following years, a large delegation of Indians; Pawnee, Sauk, Fox, Menominee, Miami, Sioux and Chippewa visited President Monroe in Washington, McKenney took this opportunity to enlist artists Lewis, King and Cooke to paint portraits of the visitors. When President Jackson dismissed McKenney in 1830, McKenney embarked on plans for a publication of the portraits. It was a laborious project. McKenney battled poverty, politics and printers. In 1865 a fire destroyed almost all of the paintings from which the lithographs were drawn. The lithographs provide the only records of these important figures of American history. With auction records for the complete three volume set of McKenney and Hall's work now hovering at the $160,000 price range, or over $1300 per plate, individual plates from this series are increasingly difficult to acquire.We have been fortunate enough to have acquired the entire set of these fine images which we will be offering in the ensuing weeks/months. Please feel free to ask us for any further information you may need. We always are as up front as possible in our descriptions and have a ten year track record of customer loyalty, something of which we are very proud and something we take very seriously.Thank you for looking and please be sure and look at our other auctions for other fine original natural history plates as well as original maps, all guaranteed original.We do not use the eBay check-out system for invoicing so it is not necessary to email us at auction end. You will receive an email from Paypal letting you know the particular payment options available to you. We will also send you an email summarizing your winning bids along with one combined postal charge. We will email you this summary within 24 hours after the auction's end. Cirqlar is a SquareTrade seller in good standing and we will do everything we can make this a positive experience for you. We don't hold checks for clearance (we have yet to receive a bad check after over 23,000 transactions!). Again, we will be happy to combine purchases to save on your shipping costs. News flash! We are now using UPS for our North American shipments. Shipments are easy to track, and there is $100 of built in insurance. Plus, yours truly doesnt have to wait in line for hours on end at the post office. If you are one of our International friends, please contact us with your particulars (name of country, insurance requirements if any) so that we might get as accurate a quote as possible to get your purchase to you in a timely fashion. Please note that we now have (finally, mercifully) a legitimate "about me" section where you can find more information about who we are and what we do as well as more tips on collecting prints and the various types of printing techniques that have been used over the years. In addition, we have hundreds of rare prints and colorplate books, maps and atlases at set prices. We have recently been fortunate enough to a... read more

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