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Show 22 filled with dense, steamy, and conveniently mysterious jungles. North America was too civilized to conjure up enough exoticism for this increasingly fastidious public. 10. Bodmer's contemporaries George Catlin and Alfred Jacob Miller also had similar trouble painting Indian ponies with accuracy. 11. There is some confusion regarding the number of colored prints in this shipment. An accounting by Bodmer, dated October 1, 1844, lists only twenty-four handcolored prints sent at this time (Maximilian Correspondence, Joslyn Museum, Omaha Nebraska, Acta 1,156-58, p.3). However, an invoice of May 2, 1838, sent to Holscher by Bodmer at the same time as the shipment, lists thirty-two prints. It is, then, most likely that thirty-two prints were included in this shipment. 12. Acta 1, no.23. This explains why so many additional black and white and chine colle prints of this tableau were produced for the German edition of Travels. The French edition, published by Arthus Bertrand, and the English edition, published by Ackermann & Company, were also in the planning stages by 1838. An additional two hundred impressions of this tableau were produced for Ackermann & Company and approximately seventy-eight impressions for Bertrand. A combined total of approximately 764 impressions were pulled for this plate. 13. Even though they were pulled from a separate plate, these last two states will be referred to as states two and three, in order to simplify discussion. An additional state, the restrikes made at the time of the sale of the collection in 1962, is used to confirm the last state of the original prints. 14. The entire Maximilian collection, including Bodmer's watercolors, was purchased by the Northern Natural Gas Company (Internorth) of Omaha in 1962 and is now on permanent loan to the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska. 15. The Swiss-born Himley (1801-1872) moved to Paris in 1822, after he had received some initial training in painting. He was soon working as an illustrator in aquatint. Although he etched many sporting prints and portraits, the greater part of his work consists of landscapes and "views." See Appendix B, Etchers. |
