In his book Jeffersonian America, Augustus Foster recollects the arrival of Meriwether Lewis and the Mandan delegation at Washington City.
Sir Augustus Foster (1825)
by Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792–1870)
50.1 in x 85.8 in; oil on canvas. Courtesy United Kingdom Government Art Collection.
Above: Foster dons the court uniform of the United Kingdom, first attributed to King George IV, c. 1820. He was knighted by King George IV in 1825 and in 1831, named Baronet of Glyde Court.[1]“Court uniform and dress in the United Kingdom”, Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_uniform_and_dress_in_the_United_Kingdom; “Augustus Foster”, Wikipedia, … Continue reading
Lewis and Sheheke Arrive
It was on the evening of the 28th December, 1806, that Captain Lewis who performed the journey up the Missouri and down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, agreeably to the orders of Congress, arrived at Washington in company with the chiefs of the Mandan nation, a Frenchman acting as interpreter, who had lived for sixteen years among that tribe, the wife of the chief, the wife of the interpreter (otherwise an Indian squaw) and three children, two of them being a boy and girl belonging to the interpreter and the third a son of the chief.[2]Augustus John Foster, Jeffersonian America: Notes on the United States of America, ed. Richard Beale Davis, ed. (San (Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1954), 27–28, available at … Continue reading
Notes
| ↑1 | “Court uniform and dress in the United Kingdom”, Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_uniform_and_dress_in_the_United_Kingdom; “Augustus Foster”, Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Foster; both accessed 9 January 2026. |
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| ↑2 | Augustus John Foster, Jeffersonian America: Notes on the United States of America, ed. Richard Beale Davis, ed. (San (Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1954), 27–28, available at archive.org/details/jeffersonianamer0000fost/. |
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