French Island, Ohio River

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

French Island, Ohio River

Date

October 18, 1832

Dimensions

6 3/8 × 8 3/4 in. (16.2 × 22.2 cm)

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.56

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

After breakfast on October 18, the steamer passed the settlements of Owensburg and Yellow Banks, where it stopped to take on wood. Later this same day it rounded French Island a few miles above Mount Vernon, Indiana, and Bodmer made this quick study. Toward eleven o'clock one of the ship's passengers died of cholera. A coffin was quickly constructed and, as the body was taken ashore for burial, Maximilian took advantage of the delay to wander along the shore in search of botanical specimens.

References in Journal

October 18, 1832

Labels:

riverscape , Ohio River

Approximate Depicted Location:

Ohio River Beyond French Island, Kentucky