Cutoff-River. Branch of the Wabash

by Karl Bodmer

$240 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

From the scarce Leipzig edition printed from the original copper-plates. Limited in number, the prints from the Leipzig edition are more scarce than, and compare favorably to, the first edition. David C. Hunt, Karl Bodmer and the American Frontier, Imprint/Spring 85, p.18 A highly dramatic scene that amply displays Bodmer's love of the natural landscape. A day's excursion on a little frequented tributary of the Wabash draws to a close, the light is fading, the artist

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