George Catlin, Buffalo Hunt Chase (1844)

Between 1830 and 1836 the painter George Catlin followed the trail of Meriwetther Lewis and William Clark’s mythical expedition along the Mississippi, becoming the first artist to ...

Water-colour drawing by John Johnson of a water buffalo taken from a sketch-book of 36 drawings (36 folios) depicting scenes chiefly in W. India and Mysore, dated c.1795-1801.The w...

After the opening-up of Japan and the expansion of trade routes in the mid-nineteenth century, Japonisme immediately spread across Europe and America. Just as the paintings of the ...