Deliverance of the Daughters of Daniel Boone and Callaway, plate two from Histoire des Premiere Colons d'Amerique
1852
Medium
Tint lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 36.1 × 53 cm (14 1/4 × 20 7/8 in.); Sheet: 44.8 × 59 cm (17 11/16 × 23 1/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
149554
Art Historical Context
Karl Bodmer’s “Deliverance of the Daughters of Daniel Boone and Callaway” captures a dramatic moment from early American frontier history. Created in 1852 as the second plate in the French publication *Histoire des Premiers Colons d’Amérique*, the lithograph illustrates the 1776 rescue of Jemima Boone and the Callaway sisters after their capture by a Shawnee war party. Bodmer, best known for his precise ethnographic studies of Native peoples along the Missouri River, here turns his attention to a story already mythologized in American lore. Printed as a tinted lithograph on ivory wove paper, ...
About the Artist
Karl Bodmer · 1809–1893
Johann Carl Bodmer was born on February 11, 1809, in Zürich, Switzerland, and received his training as a painter and engraver under his uncle Johann Jakob Meier, who had himself studied under the prominent engraver Heinrich Füssli. By the late 1820s Bodmer had relocated to Koblenz, Germany, where his work came to the attention of Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied, a German naturalist-explorer plan...