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Karl Bodmer

Swiss-French artist (1809–1893)

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Images from the collections

Images by Karl Bodmer

3 images from works
  • Human and animal skulls placed on the ground as offerings by the Mandan Indians of North America. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, ca. 1843.
  • Human and animal skulls placed on the ground as offerings by the Mandan Indians. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, 1839.
  • A man from the Mandan tribe is looking up at two idols placed on wooden sticks; a village in the background. Aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, ca. 1843.

Works from the collections

4 works

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    Human and animal skulls placed on the ground as offerings by the Mandan Indians of North America. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, ca. 1843.

    Karl Bodmer | Date: [1843?] | Reference: 579265i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A man from the Mandan tribe is looking up at two idols placed on wooden sticks; a village in the background. Aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, ca. 1843.

    Karl Bodmer | Date: [1843?] | Reference: 579266i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Human and animal skulls placed on the ground as offerings by the Mandan Indians. Coloured aquatint by S. Himely after Ch. Bodmer, 1839.

    Karl Bodmer | Date: Jany. 1st 1839 | Reference: 579263i
    • Books

    People of the first man : life among the Plains Indians in their final days of glory : the firsthand account of Prince Maximilian's expedition up the Missouri River, 1833-34 / edited and designed by Davis Thomas and Karin Ronnefeldt ; watercolors by Karl Bodmer.

    Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied | Date: 1976

Frequent collaborators

Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied
Himely, Sigismond, 1801-1872.

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