EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868–1952) Lot n° 16

EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868–1952) 'An Idle hour – Piegan', from 'The North American Indian', c. 1909 Image Size: 28 x 39,4 cm Photogravure in red-brown ink on Japanese tissue paper 33 x 42,6 cm, printed 1910, in very good condition. Typographic "Plate 197" in the upper left margin, title and "From Copyright Photograph 1910 by E. S. Curtis" as well as "Photogravure John Andrew & Son, Boston" in the lower margin. LITERATURE E. S. Curtis, The North American Indian, vol. 6, The Piegan. The Cheyenne. The Arapaho, Cambridge, Mass. 1911, plate no. 197; Edward S. Curtis, The North American Indian. The complete portfolios, text by Hans Christian Adam, Cologne 1997, p. 249.