Delaware Water Gap

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Delaware Water Gap

Date

August 23, 1832

Dimensions

9 3/4 × 14 9/16 in. (24.8 × 37 cm)

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.34

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

Leaving Dreidoppel in Bethlehem to prepare and pack zoological specimens, Maximilian and Bodmer took a carriage to Mauch Chunk on August 23, stopping briefly at a settler's house beyond Bethlehem to send back for Bodmer's forgotten sketching case. In the afternoon they stopped again at a public house in the vicinity of the Delaware Gap. Maximilian noted in his journal that Bodmer made"a faithful view" of this scenic spot encompassing the steep and woody height known locally as "the Indian Ladder." Bodmer was not the first artist to represent this scene, and the Delaware Water Gap remained a favorite subject of American landscape painters throughout the first half of the nineteenth century.

References in Journal

August 23, 1832

Labels:

landscape , Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania

Approximate Depicted Location:

Delaware Gap, Pennsylvania