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"Mandan Chief - Chef Mandan" The lithographs of plains Indians and their culture were printed in "Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen und der verschiedenen Rassen und Staemme nach den neuesten Entdeckungen und vorzueglichsten OriginalenÉ" by Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777-1861). These lithographs of Native Americans were done by the lithographer J. Honegger after Johann Carl Bodmer (1809-1893), who had traveled in America together with Prince Maximilian Alexander Philipp zu Wied-Neuwied (1782

Indegenous Peoples, Mandan Chief, Chef Mandan, Bodmer

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"Mandan Chief - Chef Mandan"

The lithographs of plains Indians and their culture were printed in

"Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen und der verschiedenen Rassen und Staemme nach den neuesten Entdeckungen und vorzueglichsten Originalen" by Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777-1861).

These lithographs of Native Americans were done by the lithographer J. Honegger

after Johann Carl Bodmer (1809-1893), who had traveled in America together with

Prince Maximilian Alexander Philipp zu Wied-Neuwied (1782-1867) from 1832-34.

The Schinz edition was published in Zurich from 1835 to 1845

The individual prints of the collection we offer here are exquisitely hand-colored, heightened with eggwhite, brilliant in their colorful appearance. A very special set. There are only minimal traces of age and use in margins.

Sheet size: ca 35.5 x 26 cm (ca. 14 x 10.2")
or ca 26 x 35.5 cm ( ca 10.2 x 14 ")

Johann Carl Bodmer (11 February 1809 – 30 October 1893) was a Swiss-French printmaker, etcher, lithographer, zinc engraver, draughtsman, painter, illustrator and hunter. He accompanied the German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied from 1832 through 1834 on his Missouri River expedition. Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (23 September 1782 – 3 February 1867) was a German explorer, ethnologist and naturalist.

Keywords: steamboat; keelboat; Fort McKenzie; Fort Benton, Montana; Fort Clark; Mandan villages. The Gros Ventre; Aaniiih, A'aninin, Haaninin, Atsina, and White Clay, Algonquian; Native American; tribe; Makensie Fort; Great Falls; Big Horn River; Dearborn River; Marias River; Teton River; New Fort; Citadel Rock; Judith River; Stone Wall; David Dreidoppel; American Fur Company;

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