View of the Stone Walls

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

View of the Stone Walls

Date

August 6, 1833

Dimensions

9 7/8 × 16 7/8 in. (25.1 × 42.9 cm)

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.392

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

Beyond Citadel Rock on the afternoon of August 6, Maximilian reported, "We came to a most remarkable place. The strata of sandstone ... run along both banks of the river, which is rather narrow. ... At some distance before us, the eye fell on an apparently narrow gate, the white walls of the two banks approaching so near to each other, that the river seemed to be very contracted between them. This illusion was heightened by the turn which the Missouri makes in this place to the southwest." A finished rendering of this view was executed by Bodmer following his return to Europe and reproduced as Tableau 41 in the atlas of aquatints. Included in the published version of the scene are representations of bighorn sheep, found in increasing numbers along the Missouri bluffs at this point.

References in Journal

August 6, 1833

Labels:

study , riverscape , Missouri River , geological study

Approximate Depicted Location:

Beyond Citadel Rock, Upper Missouri