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Karl Bodmer's Blackfoot Indian, hand-colored
Karl Bodmer's Blackfoot Indian, hand-colored
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Author: Bodmer, Karl
Title: A Blackfoot Indian on Horseback
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Date Published: 1839-43
Description: Hand-colored aquatint and etching. Image: 19x22.3 cm (7½x8¾"); sheet: 22.7x30.3 cm (9x12").Plate from Travels in the Interior of North America, published by German naturalist Maximilian Prince of Wied. Karl Bodmer (1809-1893) was a Swiss artist who documented the life of the plains Indians accompanying Prince Maximilian on this historically significant expedition. Here Bodmer records a Blackfoot warrior on horseback. The Blackfoot tribe would experience devastating suffering in the 1837 smallpox epidemic, losing more than half of its population.
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One minor foxing spot at right edge (not affecting image); near fine.
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Karl Bodmer's Blackfoot Indian, hand-colored

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