Ohio-Mississippi River Keelboat

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Ohio-Mississippi River Keelboat

Date

January 1833

Dimensions

5 15/16 × 8 9/16 in. (15.1 × 21.7 cm)

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.77

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

Bodmer sketched various types of vessels on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers during his voyage to New Orleans in January, 1833. His detailed small study of a keelboat on the Ohio depicts one of the more common craft used at that time for transporting river cargo. Keelboats, flatboats, sailboats, and canoes were in use on the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri rivers throughout the first half of the nineteenth century. Steamer traffic was introduced early in the century on the Ohio and Mississippi, but it was not until 1832 that a steamboat ascended the Missouri River above present-day Council Bluffs, Iowa, north of the mouth of the Platte.

Labels:

genre, riverscape , Ohio River , vessels, keelboat

Approximate Depicted Location:

Ohio River