Confluence of the Fox River and the Wabash

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Confluence of the Fox River and the Wabash

Date

December 6, 1832

Dimensions

11 15/16 × 14 5/8 in. (30.3 × 37.1 cm)

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.63

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

During the months of November and December, while Maximilian recovered at New Harmony, Bodmer and Dreidoppel went almost daily to explore along the Fox and Wabash rivers in search of zoological specimens. According to an entry in his journal on December 6, Maximilian himself accompanied Bodmer on an excursion by boat to Fox Island at the mouth of the Fox River. On that day, Mr. Bodmer made a drawing from an interesting landscape, the estuary of the Fox River into the Wabash. This rendering of the scene was reproduced as Tableau 5 in the atlas of aquatints published in Europe in 1839-43.

References in Journal

December 6, 1832

Labels:

genre, riverscape , New Harmony, Indiana , Fox River , Wabash River

Approximate Depicted Location:

Fox and Wabash Rivers; Indiana