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Show 23 16. There was another practical reason for the change in title. By the time this second plate was produced, another aquatint, Vignette 14, was also into production. This vignette, reproduced from another watercolor that was also simply entitled Mandan Shrine, was also etched by Himley and was included in the third issue to subscribers. Since the decision was made to entitle this vignette Offerings of the Mandan Indians, the title of Tableau 25 had to be changed. 17. An example of this state, handcolored chine colle, was in the possession of the Santa Fe Print Gallery, New Mexico, in 1988. It is likely that at least some of the chine colle prints in the last shipment to Holscher were second states. 18. Johann Hurlimann (1793-1850) was also Swiss. After training in Zurich, he eventually settled in Paris, where he worked in aquatint, after the style of Franz Hegi, with whom Bodmerand his uncle, J. J. Meier, had worked in the past. Evidence of Hurlimann's skill is the fact that of the eighty-one prints included in Travels. Hurlimann worked on twenty of them; half of these are portraits. See Appendix B, Etchers. |
