Catlin, George | Card initialled "G.C", admission to The American Indian Collection for a lecture on the "Description of the leading Customs of the American Indians"

Western Art and Design from Bar Cross Ranch, Wyoming

George Catlin

Admission card, initialed "G.C.," to The American Indian Collection lecture on the "Description of the leading Customs of the American Indians," circa 1840s

One page (181 x 111mm), on a folded leaf. Letterpress text, signed ("G.C.") in sepia ink, with two manuscript edits (corrected to Friday 9th January); old folds, a few stray spots and some faint soiling. [With:] 1 page (198 x 124mm) autograph letter signed ("Thomas Hodgkin"), dated 20 April 1852; light toning, old folds.

The letter from Thomas Hodgkin, addressed to "My dear friend," is "calling a meeting of the friends of G Catlin & I am increasingly of opinion that we may do him good thereby."

PROVENANCE:

Forum Auctions, 28 March 2019, lot 340