Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection

From: Plains Anthropologist | Date: May 1, 2003| Author: Thiessen, Thomas D | Copyright information

Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection. By W. RAYMOND WOOD, JOSEPH C. PORTER, and DAVID C. HUNT. University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago. 2002. x + 166 pp., 16 figures, 32 black and white plates, 12 color plates, index. $45.00 (Cloth, ISBN 0-2520-2756-6).

In 1832, a Prussian nobleman, Alexander Philip Maximilan, a prince of Wied-Neuwied, arrived in the United States, accompanied by two men in his employ, a young Swiss artist named Karl Bodmer and the ...

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