Cave-In-Rock. View on the Ohio

by Karl Bodmer

$1,850 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A beautiful scene depicting an Ohio steamer flanked by three keelboats, all caught against a late evening sky. En route to St.Louis, Missouri, Bodmer, Prince Maximilian and Dreidoppel traveled via the Ohio river. About twenty-five miles beyond Shawnee Town, Bodmer sketched this intriguing geological rock formation known as Cave-In-Rock on the Illinois side of the river near Cave-In-Rock Island, which is today part of a National Park. Keelboats and ships transporting goods

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