Dog sledges of the Mandan Indians / ch. Bodmer pinx. ad nat. ; René Rollet sc. – Vintage Wall Art
![Dog sledges of the Mandan Indians / ch. Bodmer pinx. ad nat. ; René Rollet sc., Coblenz : bei J. Hölscher , [between 1839 and 1841] (Imp. de Bougeard) — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3d/3dc983d6db75-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Dog sledges of the Mandan Indians / ch. Bodmer pinx. ad nat. ; René Rollet sc., a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Dog sledges of the Mandan Indians / ch. Bodmer pinx. ad nat. ; René Rollet sc.
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This plate shows Mandan dogs hauling loads on sledges, a reminder of how much work the animals did before horses became common on the northern plains. Karl Bodmer painted the scene in 1834 while traveling up the Missouri River with Prince Maximilian of Wied, the German naturalist who was recording the region's peoples and landscapes. René Rollet engraved the image as an aquatint, and it was published in Coblenz between 1839 and 1841 as an illustration in Maximilian's account of the expedition. Its value lies in how carefully it records a everyday transport method that few European observers described in such detail.
| Created / published | Coblenz : bei J. Hölscher , [between 1839 and 1841] (Imp. de Bougeard) |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : aquatint, color. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1830-1850.Aquatints Color 1830-1850. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 / von Maximilian Prinz zu Wied. Coblenz : J. Hoelscher, 1839-41, Fig. XX[?]. Aquatint of 1834 painting by Karl Bodmer. Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, p. 65. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Transportation--1830-1840. Mandan Indians--Transportation--1830-1840. Dogsledding--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,101 × 4,084 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218667 |
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