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Show 116 Other landscapes into which active groups had been inserted vary in their degree of accuracy and each must be examined separately, in order to determine how closely these aquatints follow the information of their source materials.5 ° Nonetheless, although art dominated the design and composition, the information of both eyewitnesses, Maximilian and Bodmer, was also included. In most cases, Bodmer's creative structuring of the composite prints simply expanded upon the information of the primary sketches to create a more comprehensive picture of the activities portrayed; discrepancies in information can be extracted by comparison of the primary sketches and the completed aquatints.51 The quality of Travels' portrait and composite aquatints was the direct result of Bodmer's background in travelbook illustration. He had drawn upon his past associations for support, gathering around him the best talent the genre could offer. It was the landscape aquatints, however, for which Bodmer was thoroughly competent and engaged, and ultimately the reason why no changes were made in the image of the White Castles when it was transposed to aquatint. The French and English Editions of Travels: First and Second States of Tableau 37 The first state of Tableau 37 shows only one image change from the proof impression: several additional birds were added in the sky above the castles. This first state, undated, has all the inscription information, including English title. However, this title was misspelled "The White Castels"; the second state of Tableau 37 shows only a correction in spelling in the English title -- |