Prints by Karl Bodmer
[ Aquatints | Lithographs ]
Prints from Travels In the Interior of North America in the Years 1832 to 1834. London: Ackermann and Company, 1839-1843. Aquatints. Except as noted: with blind stamps; full hand color; and very good condition.
Karl Bodmer, (1809-1893), is considered by many to be the greatest 19th-century artist to have produced prints of the American west. Bodmer and his patron, Prince Maximilian of Wied, came to America from Germany in 1832. With Bodmer in charge of the pictorial documentary, Prince Maximilian, an experienced and respected traveler and naturalist, set out to put together as complete a study as possible of the western territories of the United States. The result was the publication of Maximilian's journals in successive German, French, and English editions between 1839 and 1843, and with it, a picture atlas of eighty-one aquatint plates after paintings by Bodmer. This picture volume is now regarded as one of the most comprehensive and memorable visual surveys of the western territories ever made. The prints provide a rare and privileged glimpse into 19th-century America by one of the now most coveted artists of the period.
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No. 35. "Indianer Geschmückt Mit Den Zeichen Seiner Kriegsthaten. Indien décoré des emblèmes de ses faits d'armes." From H.R. Schinz's Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen. Zurich: Honeggerschen Lithographischen Anstalt, 1840-1845. Ca. 11 x 8. Lithograph by J. Honegger. Full hand color. Very good condition.
Between abut 1836 and 1845, H.R. Schinz issued a natural history, with a focus on humans of different races, which included as illustrations images after Bodmer. Some of these images appeared before any of the other Bodmers, and even those in the third edition are very early. These very fine lithographs were drawn by J. Honegger and they are close reduced versions of the aquatint prints. These are the earliest and largest derivatives of Bodmer's images, and are if anything rarer than the aquatints. A fine example of the output of on of the greatest chroniclers of Native Americans. $1,600
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