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Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jaren 1832 bis 1834 (Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-34)Open to Vignette XIX: A Blackfoot Indian on Horse-back
After Karl Bodmer Swiss
Engraving by Charles Beyer
Not on view
Maximilian’s observations were published in a two-volume German travelogue, followed by French and abridged English editions (1839–43). Interspersed among the narrative pages are sixty wood engravings and thirty-three aquatint "vignettes," all based on Bodmer’s field watercolors and produced under his supervision. The rider’s face here is based on his portrait of an unidentified Piegan or Gros Ventre individual. Later, in his Paris studio, Bodmer produced a pencil sketch of a man on horseback (now in the Newberry, Chicago) that served as the engraver’s compositional reference.
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