BODMER, KARL | Niagara Falls. [Tab. 39]. Paris, Coblentz and London: [1839-1842]

BODMER, KARL

Niagara Falls. [Tab. 39]. Paris, Coblentz and London: [1839-1842]

Hand-colored aquatint engraving (sheet size: 18 x 24 3/4 in.), by Lucas Weber after Bodmer, blindstamp, issued with no date at end of English imprint; some mild vertical creases. 

One of greatest landscape images to result from the Bodmer's and Prince Maximilian's expedition

Bodmer saw the Falls for the first time on 28 June 1834, and was clearly inspired by the scenic splendor of one of the great natural wonders of the world. He and Prince Maximilian had reached the Falls towards the end of their expedition. Leaving Vincennes, Indiana, on about 11 June, they had traveled east, arriving on the Ohio opposite Louisville, Kentucky. Here they took ship for Cincinnati and Portsmouth following the route of the Ohio Canal along the Scioto River north to Cleveland on Lake Erie. From here they took a steamboat to Buffalo, New York. Niagara Falls remained a favorite subject of artists throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, but the present representation is arguably one of the finest to appear in print.