Shot Tower near Selma

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Shot Tower near Selma

Date

March 23, 1833

Dimensions

4 15/16 × 8 in. (12.5 × 20.3 cm)

Medium

Graphite on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.118

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

The vessel continued upriver on the morning of March 23. Beyond Fort Chartres Island, site of an old French settlement about ten miles above Ste. Genevieve, it approached the villages of Selma and Herculaneum. In his journal Maximilian described the curious rock formations observed along this stretch of the Mississippi and mentioned in passing the shot tower near Selma sketched by Bodmer around eleven o'clock.

References in Journal

March 23, 1833

Labels:

structure , Mississippi River , Kaskaskia River , Selma, Missouri

Approximate Depicted Location:

Village of Selma, Missouri