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Travels of Inner North America, Volume 2
Travels of Inner North America, Volume 2

Travels of Inner North America, Volume 2

Author Maximilian, Prinz zu Weid (German, 1782 - 1867)
Date1841
MediumBook
DimensionsOverall: 12 1/2 × 10 7/8 × 2 1/4 inches (31.75 × 27.61 × 5.72 cm)
Credit LineGift of Whitney and Betty MacMillan in honor of Estelle and Morton Sosland
Object number2007.16.2
On View
Not on view
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DescriptionThe binding is dark brown with a marbled pattern. Two of the books are text volumes. The other two are filled with hand-colored engravings showing various early scenes from across North America, including picturesque landscapes and images of American Indians. The covers of the illustration volumes feature the following title: "MAXIMILIAN / PRINZ ZU WEID. / Reise / in das inner / Nord-Amerika. / 1832-1834 / KUPFER"

Particular passages of many of the images have been treated with gum arabic, which produces a glossy sheen.Exhibition History

[No known exhibitions at this time]

Provenance

Erbach-Schönbergische Bibliothek, Darmstadt, Germany [1];

Dr. Herbert Tischner (1906-1984), Hamburg, Germany, by 1984 [2];

Sale, Exploration and Travel, Christie’s, London, April 18, 2000, lot 34;

With Mary Williams Fine Arts, Boulder, CO;

Purchased from Mary Williams Fine Arts by Whitney (1929-2020) and Elizabeth (b. 1931) MacMillan, Wayzata, MN, by June 18, 2007;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2007.

NOTES:

[1] The library’s bookplate is pasted inside the volume.

[2] Dr. Herbert Tischner’s bookplate is pasted inside the volume. Tischner was head of the Oceania department of the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology from 1936-1968. See Valerie Weinstein, “Archiving the Ephemeral: Dance in Ethnographic Films from the Hamburg South Seas Expedition 1908-1910,” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 46, no. 3 (September 2010), 223.

Published References

[No known references at this time]

Exploration and Travel with 20th Century South African Paintings (London: Christie’s, 2000), 46-47.
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