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Show 15 were depicted, the European-bred horse and hunting dog make their appearance. Such ethnological misinformation may seem minor, but must be kept in mind when evaluating the documentary value of the aquatints. The first shipment of Tableau 25 from Bodmer's studio in Paris was sent to Holscher, the German publisher of Travels, on November 18, 1837; it included 150 black and white and fifty chine colle prints. It was not until February of 1838 that the first seventeen handcolored prints were forwarded to Coblenz. These were probably all first states of the print. On May 2, 1838, the third shipment was sent; it consisted of one hundred black and white and thirty-two handcolored prints. 1 1 The fourth and last shipment was sent to Holscher on September 17, 1838. It included the remaining prints-ninety-nine black and white, twenty-five chine colle, and twenty-one handcolored-bringing the total number of Tableau 25 produced for the German edition of Travels to 494 impressions. In a letter to Holscher, dated September 18, 1838, and sent with the last shipment, Bodmer explained that he had been forced to make a new plate from which the prints in the last shipment had been made. The original copperplate had become so badly worn that no more prints could be pulled. Bodmer told Holscher that since this new plate was so particularly beautiful in its effect, all new subscribers should be issued the new print, not just those who had recently subscribed to the proposed French edition then in the planning stages. In this way, Bodmer believed, the French edition would not be placed at an unfair advantage over the earlier German edition. He asked that all the old prints, i.e., the black and white and the chine colle pulled from the old plate, be put aside.12 |