View of Bethlehem Pennsylvania

by Karl Bodmer

$1,200 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Provenance: Donaldson, Lufkin &Jenrette Americana Collection A pastoral landscape scene of great serenity: the wheat has been cut and the stubble has yet to be ploughed in, the farming community takes a momentary rest from their labours. Another harvest safely gathered in. In the early-morning sun few people are around as Bodmer completes his sketch. After a day long journey Bodmer and Prince Maximilian had arrived on the evening of July 25 1832 at Bethlehem, a settlement of

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