Antique Print of Hills on the Upper Missouri Made after Bodmer, circa 1840

Name: Antique Print of Hills on the Upper Missouri Made after Bodmer, circa 1840
Brand: Karl Bodmer
SKU: BG-08001
Price: 840 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1840
Maker: Karl Bodmer
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 42 × 55.5 cm (16.5 × 21.9 in)
Condition: Good. Blindstamp below title. Some soiling and wear, mainly in the margins. Please study images carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Montana, North Dakota
Reference: BG-08001

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Remarkable hills on the Upper Missouri, an aquatint engraving by Salathe after Karl Bodmer, circa 1840, from Prince Maximilian of Wied's account of his travels in North America. The sheet is lettered in three languages: "Merkwurdige Hugel," "Remarkable Hills on the Upper Missouri" and "Collines Singulieres," with imprints for Coblenz, London and Paris.

It is a composite plate made up of twenty separate views, each numbered and set apart by plain borders, all sketched during the journey up the Missouri aboard the sixty-foot keelboat Flora. The views show flat-topped bluffs, tall eroded pinnacles with caps of harder rock, castellated cliffs, and sweeping ranges of broken hills, drawn in tones of gray with a delicacy that suits the subject.

Prince Maximilian and his party left Fort Union on 6 July 1833 and reached Fort McKenzie on 9 August, passing through the Mauvaises Terres (no. 21 in the composite) and the Stone Walls (no. 10 and others), an area that Maximilian described as "the most interesting part of the whole course of the Missouri."

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