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Lot Essay
The plaque mounted on base reads:
Solid silver sculpture depicting
a buffalo hunt Made by Robert
Garrard, Royal Silversmith,
London, C.1852, after a painting
by George Catlin renowned for
his Western American Subjects
American artist George Catlin (1796-1872) traveled extensively in the American West in the 1830s, and was the first artist to depict the Native Americans of the region from his own experiences. His work was especially popular in London after 1840, when an exhibition of his work opened in the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. While there is no direct model for this sculptural group in Catlin's work, the figures closely resemble the artist's style and reflect the European interest in the "unspoiled" American West in the mid-19th century.
These figures relate to those on the Queen's Cup, Ascot, 1861 (mark of Robert Garrard II, London, 1848), the design attributed to Edmund Cotterill (1795-1860). The cup sold in these Rooms, 19 May 2010, lot 123, and is illustrated in The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, illus. pp. 224-25.
Solid silver sculpture depicting
a buffalo hunt Made by Robert
Garrard, Royal Silversmith,
London, C.1852, after a painting
by George Catlin renowned for
his Western American Subjects
American artist George Catlin (1796-1872) traveled extensively in the American West in the 1830s, and was the first artist to depict the Native Americans of the region from his own experiences. His work was especially popular in London after 1840, when an exhibition of his work opened in the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. While there is no direct model for this sculptural group in Catlin's work, the figures closely resemble the artist's style and reflect the European interest in the "unspoiled" American West in the mid-19th century.
These figures relate to those on the Queen's Cup, Ascot, 1861 (mark of Robert Garrard II, London, 1848), the design attributed to Edmund Cotterill (1795-1860). The cup sold in these Rooms, 19 May 2010, lot 123, and is illustrated in The Glory of the Goldsmith: Magnificent Gold and Silver from the Al-Tajir Collection, 1989, illus. pp. 224-25.