Peacocks on a Bough
Karl Bodmer
c. 1870
Medium
Etching on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 19.6 × 12.9 cm (7 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.); Plate: 23.8 × 16.1 cm (9 3/8 × 6 3/8 in.); Sheet: 37.9 × 27.4 cm (14 15/16 × 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
148786
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...