McKenney and Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America… 1844 Birds/Ornithology Prints Plate 205

Plate 205

this monumental painting established Bierstadt as a key competitor of the preeminent landscape painter

but this multi-stone color lithograph was printed by Bachman himself

Representing him engaged in the Grand Match played in the Tennis Court - Lords Cricket Ground

Camp of the Gros Ventres of the Prairies

McKenney and Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America… 1844 Birds/Ornithology Prints Plate 205MCKENNEY, Thomas L. (1785 1859) and James HALL (1793 1868). History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenough, 1838 (vol. 1); Daniel Rice & James G. Clark, 1842; 1844 (vols. 2 3), 1844. FIRST EDITION, "OF THE GRANDEST COLOR PLATE BOOK ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES UP TO THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE CENTURY" (Reese). 3 volumes, folio (20" x 14 1 2"). 120 handcolored lithographed plates