4 THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 



moirs, recollections, or impressions; but only two of those who promised 

 kept their word. One lady wrote promptly, offering matter of interest j 

 she, as most ladies usually do, kept her promise, and supplied for many 

 portions of the work information without which it would, have been in- 

 complete. She requested that her name be not mentioned, but no agree- 

 ment was made as to the fact of her work, which is in this manner 

 most gratefully acknowledged. 



At the instance of Prof. Spencer F. Baird, I undertook and have 

 executed this work. To him and. to Francis P. Oatlin, a brother of 

 George Catlin, and others, I am under obligations for many courtesies 

 and attentions. 



HISTORY OF THE GALLERY — 1829 TO 1885. 



George Catlin began the work of creating a gallery of paintings of 

 North American Indians in 1829-'30— completed in 1838. 



In the introduction to his catalogues from 1837 to 1818 (see also 

 herein) he gives an account of its origin. 



The gallery and collection of objects known as "Catlin's Indian 

 Museum" which was attached to it, is fully described, with plates, in 

 Catlin's " North American Indians," 2 vols., London, 1842-'48 (eleven 

 editions.) After 1848 it became known as u Catlin's Indian Collec- 

 tion" — many more pictures having been added to it. In this work, the 

 American catalogue of 1837-'38 (and the English ones up and to 1848) 

 is used. This catalogue is also printed in Catlin's "Notes of Eight Years' 

 Travels and Eesidence in Europe with his North American Indian Col- 

 lection," volume I, pages 248 to 507. 



The London catalogue of 1840, reprinted from the American of 1837-'38, 

 was published in London in 1839 to 1843 and printed by C. & J. Adlard, 

 Bartholomew Close. It contains 310 numbers of Indian portraits ; from 

 Nos. 311 to 403 are landscapes ; from Nos. 404 to 426, sporting scenes, 

 and from Nos. 427 to 503, amusements and customs, and from Nos. 504 

 to 507 (4 numbers), the Mandan religious ceremonies, in all 507 numbers. 

 The original Catlin gallery, as exhibited in the United States in 1838-'39, 

 Mr. Catlin took to London in 1839-'40 and exhibited three years at Egyp- 

 tian Hall, Piccadilly. Mr. Catlin had with him in Europe a series of 

 sketches which he worked into pictures and added to his gallery, mak- 

 ing it a Collection, as he termed it. His gallery which he took to Paris 

 in 1845 was the original one. He worked industriously while in Paris 

 and added to his gallery, until, when he reached London in 1848, it 

 contained (as shown by the catalogue of u Catlings Indian Collections, 

 London, 6 Waterloo Place, 1848," 99 pp.), in addition, Nos. 508 to 516? 

 portraits of nine Ojibways (Chippewas), who visited London, 1845, 

 Nos. 517 to 530, fourteen loways, who visited London and Paris in 

 1845 and 1846, and Nos. 531 to 542, the twelve Ojibways, who visited 

 London, Paris, and Brussels in 1845 and 1846, and also Nos. 543 to 555, 

 pictures worked up from his sketches. These will be found in Catlin's 

 u Notes of Travel in Europe," pages 293 to 295. 



