Sugar Camp between New Harmony and Mount Vernon

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

Sugar Camp between New Harmony and Mount Vernon

Date

March 16, 1833

Dimensions

4 1/4 × 6 13/16 in. (10.8 × 17.3 cm)

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.69

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

In his journal entry for March 15 the day before he left New Harmony for St. Louis, Maximilian recorded that the stay of nearly five months had made him very well acquainted with this region "and was also very profitable for our collections." Bodmer's unfinished sketch of a sugar camp, dated March 16 was made on the way to Mount Vernon to catch an Ohio steamer. Maximilian observed that en route they passed "numerous, colossal sugar maples ... which were provided with tubes for tapping the sap . ... We found a complete sugar camp in the forest . . . and the hut (see Mr. Bodmer's sketch) in which four pot rings for boiling were embedded in a pit contained in addition large troughs in which the sap from the small tree troughs is collected."

References in Journal

March 16, 1833

Labels:

structure , Mount Vernon, Indiana , New Harmony, Indiana

Approximate Depicted Location:

En route to Mount Vernon, Indiana