View on the Delaware: Joseph Bonaparte’s Garden

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Artist

Karl Bodmer

Birth and death dates

1809 - 1893

Artist Nationality

Swiss

Title

View on the Delaware: Joseph Bonaparte's Garden

Date

July 23, 1832

Dimensions

6 7/16 × 10 1/8 in. (16.4 × 25.7 cm)

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Institution

Joslyn Art Museum

Credit Line

Gift of the Enron Art Foundation

Accession Number

1986.49.25

Rights (i.e. copyright information)

Joslyn Art Museum

Photographer credit

Photograph © Bruce M. White, 2019

Commentary

At the time of Maximilian's visit, the once extensive Bonaparte estate consisted of about 300 acres of garden and park land. Bodmer made a second landscape in this vicinity on the afternoon of July 23. This was later reproduced as Vignette II in the atlas of aquatints that accompanied the publication of Maximilian's travels in North America.

References in Journal

July 19, 1832

Labels:

structure , genre, riverscape , Delaware River , Joseph Bonaparte

Approximate Depicted Location:

Bordentown, New Jersey