Strange Sandstone Formations on the Upper Missouri

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Strange Sandstone Formations on the Upper Missouri

Date

August 2, 1833

Dimensions

12 7/16 × 7 13/16 in. (31.6 × 19.8 cm)

Medium

Wash and graphite on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.193

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

Bodmer continued sketching the unusual formations along the Missouri channel on August 2. He often incorporated more than one view on the same sheet of paper, and many were grouped together when featured in various combinations in the atlas of aquatints published in Europe. Reproduced here is a series of sketches, two of which were mentioned by Maximilian on August 2 as sketch AA and sketch BB.

References in Journal

August 2, 1833

Labels:

study , Missouri River , study, geological

Approximate Depicted Location:

Missouri River