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A Stop, Evening Bivouac, Karl Bodmer

American / German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “A Stop, Evening Bivouac” by Karl Bodmer of 1833.  This watercolor was completed after the artist’s party camped for the night on the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota.  They camped on the night of November 3, 1833.  Bodmer was a Swiss artist who was twenty-four when he produced the watercolor and was on an expedition with the German explorer Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied.  After the expedition Bodmer returned to Europe where he died on October 30, 1893.
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Mouth of the Fox River by Sigismond Himely after Karl Bodmer

Academician / American / French / Landscape - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Mouth of the Fox River in Indiana” by Sigismund Himley.  He created this aquatint based on the watercolor by Karl Bodmer that was created on December 6, 1832 near New Harmony, Indiana.  Himley’s aquatint was hand-colored via etching with roulette on paper.  The scene is on the lower Wabash River near its confluence with the Ohio River further downstream from New Harmony, Indiana.  The Swiss Himely was thirty-six years old when this was produced and he died twenty-nine years later in Paris.

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