Cliffs on the Missouri

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Cliffs on the Missouri

Date

August 5, 1833

Dimensions

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

Medium

Watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.194

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

On August 3 the keelboat navigated Dauphin Rapid some twenty miles above Cow Creek near the modern Cow Island Landing within today's Missouri Breaks Wild and Scenic River section of the Missouri. On August 5 it passed the mouth of the Judith River. The next day Maximilian again remarked upon the strange landscape of the region and noted another of Bodmer's renderings when he wrote, "In this region there were again the strangest formations, like fortresses, a church with two towers, etc. (for the latter see sketch DD)." Earlier on August 2, Maximilian had referred to a sketch of cliffs along the Missouri which he identified by the letters CC. This is the uppermost of a series of views on the same sheet of paper that also includes sketch DD.

References in Journal

August 6, 1833

Labels:

study , Missouri River , study, geological

Approximate Depicted Location:

Cow Island, Montana