Greetings all: Other illustrations of North American peoples include
those "fecit," drawn by Dutch surveyor/scientist Bernard Romans, _A
Concise Natural History of East and West Florida_, 1775, New York, N.Y.,
with map and maybe sketches engraved by none other than Paul Revere.
Some one else may know where the original ms drawings are [Romans,
carrying a big $ purse, was murdered on a return trip to the rebelling
colonies]. Useful, if dated, is John R. Swanton, _The Indians of the
Southeastern United States_, Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American
Ethnology, Bulletin 137, GPO, 1946, which includes a helpful album of
reproductions in the back--especially fine are artist John Trumbull's
1790 elegant drawing series of Creek micos (leaders). These sittings are
candid, but posed portraits. David R. Brigham (1995) has pointed out
that physiognotraces (silhouette portraits) cut by freed slave Moses
Williams for visitors to Charles Wilson Peale's Philadelphia Museum
include at least one of a member of a visiting Native American delegation.
For Mexico, there is a wealth of 16th-century illustration in codices
prepared by scholastic-trained Aztecs, which beg for scholarship! I'm
ready for the latter, but the project would require a team of scholars
with different skills. Any one tempted? CMP
Brian W. Ogilvie wrote:
> In response to Karen Reeds's query, another early American natural
> history illustrator who portrayed humans is the defrocked Jesuit Louis
> Nicolas, author of the Codex Canadiensis:
>
> http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/codex/index-e.html
>
> Germaine Warkentin of the U. of Toronto is currently working on
> Nicolas; I learned about his work from a lecture she gave last fall up
> my way.
>
> Brian
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