Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), Pehriska Rupa Region_Colonial America and the Bay of Chesapeyock

and the Bay of Chesapeyock

one large woodcut map and one woodcut text diagram

decorated with a bar scale of miles surmounted by a representation of a pair of dividers in yellow and gray wash

its claw 1 1/2

in return for a lump sum payment of $700 and an annual pension of $600 for twenty-one years

Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), Pehriska Rupa Region_Colonial America and the Bay of ChesapeyockKARL BODMER From Travels in the Interior of North America Hand colored aquatint engravings Paris, 1832 1843 Sheet Size: 24 1 2 x 17 3 8 THE MOST ACCLAIMED BOOK ON AMERICAN INDIAN LIFE AND THE AMERICAN FRONTIER. Karl Bodmer was a little known Swiss painter when he was chosen by Prince Maximilian of Prussia to accompany his voyage to America, in order to document in pictorial terms the expedition. With the rest of Maximilians company, the two traveled