 | George Catlin - 1841 - 436 sider
...America. And the history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy the life-time of one man, and nothing short...visiting their country, and of becoming their historian. the city, without the remotest prospect of again contributing to my amusement. I had fully resolved... | |
 | George Catlin - 1842 - 442 sider
...America. And the history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy the life-time of one man, and nothing short...delightful in the above resolve, which was to bring me amidst such living models for my brush ; and at the same time to place in my hands again, for my... | |
 | George Catlin - 1845 - 432 sider
...America. And the history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy the life-time of one man, and nothing short...visiting their country, and of becoming their historian. in ihe city, without the remotest prospect of again contributing to my amusement. I had fully resolved... | |
 | George Catlin - 1848 - 436 sider
...America. And the history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy the life-time of one man, and nothing short...delightful in the above resolve, which was to bring me amidst such living models for my brush ; and at the same time to place in my hands again, for my... | |
 | George Catlin - 1850 - 448 sider
...America. And the history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy the life-time of one man, and nothing short...delightful in the above resolve, which was to bring me amidst such living models for my brush : and at the same time to place in my hands again, for my... | |
 | George Catlin - 1857 - 474 sider
...America. And the history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy the life-time of one man, and nothing short...delightful in the above resolve, which was to bring me amidst such living models for my brush ; and at the same time to place in my hands again, for my... | |
 | Canada. Sauvages Commissaires pour S'Enquerir de Affaires des - 1858 - 806 sider
...America. And the history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy the life-time of one man, and nothing short...delightful in the above resolve, which was to bring me amidst such living models for my brush ; and at the same time to place in my hands again, for my... | |
 | George Catlin - 1876 - 434 sider
...America. And the history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy the life-time of one man, and nothing short...something inexpressibly delightful in the above resolve, winch was to bring me amidst such living models for my brush : and at the same time to place in my... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1891 - 1216 sider
...such a [«••' preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy the lifetime of one man. si. nothing short of the loss of my life, shall prevent me from visiting their country,un of becoming their historian. "There was something inexpressibly delightful in the, above... | |
 | Eugene Campbell Barker, Herbert Eugene Bolton - 1926 - 352 sider
...America. And the history and customs of such people, preserved by pictorial illustrations are themes worthy the life-time of one man, and nothing short...life, shall prevent me from visiting their country and becoming their historian." Accordingly in 1832 Catlin went west, and until 1840 lived with the wild... | |
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... the painter, — and the country from which he hails is unquestionably the best study or school of the arts in the world : such I am sure, from the models I have seen, is the wilderness of North America. And the history and customs of such a people,... 
