Lot 278
Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), "Tower-Rock view on the Mississippi", [Vig. 9]. Paris, Coblentz and London: [1839-1842], hand-colored aquatint engraving by John Outhwaite after Bodmer, blindstamp, issue with no date after English imprint, plate mark 10 5/8 in. x 14 in., sheet 11 3/4 in. x 15 7/8 in., attractively matted and framed Note: Bodmer and benefactor Prince Maximilian set out for St. Louis from Mount Vernon making their way rapidly down the River Ohio and joining the Mississippi. On the afternoon of 21 March 1833, their steamer approached a feature known as the Grand Tower (or Tower-Rock), which Maximilian described as an isolated drum-like formation between sixty and eighty feet high. He added that `Mr. Bodmer sketched the Grand Tower and found this place highly interesting and picturesque'. The scene includes the travellers' Ohio paddle-steamer and three Mississippi keel-boats, a form of freight transportation that, by the 1830s, was fast being replaced by the steamers.
Starting Price: USD 500
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