Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952), The North American Indian, Portfolio 10 (Complete with 36 works) (1914)
Edward Sheriff Curtis (American, 1868-1952) The North American Indian, Portfolio 10 (Complete with 36 works), 1914 Photogravure printed on Tweedweave paper, 1966 11-1/2 x 15-1/4 inches (29.2 x 38.7 cm), or the reverse and slightly smaller Each with title, date, plate number, and letterpress credit in the margin. Photogravures and list of plates are housed in folding portfolio case with cloth ties. THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN "TWEEDWEAVE" PHOTOGRAVURE PORTFOLIOS The story of Edward Curtis' The North American Indian is well known. Curtis started on the most ambitious photographic publishing project of the 20th century with the hope of completing 500 sets, each comprising 723 large-format photogravures in 20 portfolios and 20 text volumes with 1,506 small-format photogravures. Starting in 1900 and working until 1930, the project destroyed his business, family and finally his health. In the end about 300 sets were printed with only approximately 272 finished and sold. What happened after Curtis went bankrupt is less well known. In 1935 the remaining photogravures and copper printing plates were sold to Charles Lauriat, a Boston rare book dealer. The inventory included 17 complete sets of portfolios 13-20. In 1966 Emiliano Sorini was approached about printing 17 sets of portfolio 1-12 from the original plates in Lauriat's possession to complete the sets. This later printing of the first 12 portfolios was done on a paper with a woven texture and is known by collectors as the "Tweedweave" edition. It was previously thought that these 17 sets of the first 12 portfolios were printed by Emiliano Sorini himself but a transcript from the Robert Rauschenberg Oral History Project, The Reminiscences of Deli Sacilotto, Columbia Center for Oral History Research, Columbia University, 2015 reveals that it was his friend Deli Sacilotto who did the actual printing. "He was doing only etchings and he said—well someone came to him to print Edward [Sheriff] Curtis's PROVENANCE: Printed by Deli Sacilotto in the Emiliano Sorini studio, 1966-1967; Purchased by the current owner from Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1972.
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Condition Report: Sheet size 17 3/4 x 22 inches. Photogravures in overall excellent condition. Plate 336 has tiny dots of ink in the lower margin near the title. Some age darkening to the edges of the list of plates.
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Edward Sheriff Curtis (American, 1868-1952) The North American Indian, Portfolio 10 (Complete with 36 works), 1914 Photogravure printed on Tweedweave paper, 1966 11-1/2 x 15-1/4 inches (29.2 x 38.7 cm), or the reverse and slightly smaller Each with title, date, plate number, and letterpress credit in the margin. Photogravures and list of plates are housed in folding portfolio case with cloth ties. THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN "TWEEDWEAVE" PHOTOGRAVURE PORTFOLIOS The story of Edward Curtis' The North American Indian is well known. Curtis started on the most ambitious photographic publishing project of the 20th century with the hope of completing 500 sets, each comprising 723 large-format photogravures in 20 portfolios and 20 text volumes with 1,506 small-format photogravures. Starting in 1900 and working until 1930, the project destroyed his business, family and finally his health. In the end about 300 sets were printed with only approximately 272 finished and sold. What happened after Curtis went bankrupt is less well known. In 1935 the remaining photogravures and copper printing plates were sold to Charles Lauriat, a Boston rare book dealer. The inventory included 17 complete sets of portfolios 13-20. In 1966 Emiliano Sorini was approached about printing 17 sets of portfolio 1-12 from the original plates in Lauriat's possession to complete the sets. This later printing of the first 12 portfolios was done on a paper with a woven texture and is known by collectors as the "Tweedweave" edition. It was previously thought that these 17 sets of the first 12 portfolios were printed by Emiliano Sorini himself but a transcript from the Robert Rauschenberg Oral History Project, The Reminiscences of Deli Sacilotto, Columbia Center for Oral History Research, Columbia University, 2015 reveals that it was his friend Deli Sacilotto who did the actual printing. "He was doing only etchings and he said—well someone came to him to print Edward [Sheriff] Curtis's PROVENANCE: Printed by Deli Sacilotto in the Emiliano Sorini studio, 1966-1967; Purchased by the current owner from Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1972.
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Condition Report: Sheet size 17 3/4 x 22 inches. Photogravures in overall excellent condition. Plate 336 has tiny dots of ink in the lower margin near the title. Some age darkening to the edges of the list of plates.
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