Bodmer Engraving "Cutoff-River Branch of the Wabash"

Karl Bodmer (Swiss-born, 1809-1893). Cutoff-River. Branch of the Wabash.Hand-colored aquatint engraving by Weber after Bodmer. Vignette VIII from "Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834" Paris, Coblenz, and London: 1839-1843. A first edition, hand-colored aquatint engraving after Karl Bodmer (Bodmer blind stamp at lower center) from "Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834" - an ambitious project that provided a detailed record of many Native American tribes encountered by Bodmer and explorer Prince Maximilian of Wied (1782-1867) during their expedition across the American West. Bodmer is known for his incredibly accurate depictions of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Sioux, Assinoboine, Plans Cree, Gros Ventres, and Blackfoot tribes prior to the invention of photography in the 19th century, while Prince Maximilian collected artifacts, recorded his observations, and transcribed interviews of their subjects. Size (sight view): 9.625" L x 11.875" W (24.4 cm x 30.2 cm) Size (frame): 22.25" L x 24.5" W (56.5 cm x 62.2 cm) Karl Bodmer's works demonstrate his immense technical virtuosity and during their day provided a detailed image of a previously virtually unknown and unfortunately not long for this world way of life. Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782-1867) invited Bodmer to create a visual record of his travels in North America, primarily to learn more about the Plains Indians in this era prior to the invention of the camera. The pair along with David Dreidoppel, the Prince's hunting companion and servant, traveled from 1832 to 1834. They landed in Boston in July 1832, then traveled to Philadelphia, where Napoleon Bonaparte's elder brother Joseph hosted them. Next, they headed west via Pennsylvania across the Alleghenies to Pittsburgh and the Ohio country, all the while visiting important German settlements - the utopian colony of New Harmony in Indiana being a particularly important stop. It was there that the Prince spent five months in the company of some of the countries leading experts, and studied informative literature about the American frontier. On March 1833, the party reached St. Louis, Missouri, and set off on their journey to meet and learn about Native Americans. The trio left St. Louis aboard the steamer known as Yellow Stone on April 10, 1833. Proceeding up the perilous Missouri River following the line of forts established by the American Fur Company, they first met Native Americans at Bellevue; next, they met the Sioux peoples, all the while learning everything they could and recording the little known ceremonial dances and customs. Next, they transferred from the Yellow Stone to the Assinboine steamer, and continued to Fort Clark, visiting the Mandan, Crow, and Mintari tribes, and then the Assinboins at Fort Union, which was the primary base of the American Fur Company. They next boarded a smaller vessel to travel through the geological region of that section of the Missouri to Fort Mackenzie in Montana, where they cautiously established a friendship with the legendarily fierce Blackfeet. This was their westernmost point, as it was considered much too dangerous to continue on. Hence, they returned downstream, and the winter months presented their own set of challenges. However, Bodmer continued to create magnificent studies of the peoples, dances, and villages. Item # 202003

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