National Gallery of Art · Print
Bison-Dance of the Mandan Indians
Alex Manceau, after Karl Bodmer
- Date
- 1842
- Medium
- hand-colored etching, aquatint, and mezzotint on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 30.48 × 43.97 cm (12 × 17 5/16 in.) plate: 41.28 × 54.13 cm (16 1/4 × 21 5/16 in.) sheet (trimmed at top): 41.75 × 58.9 cm (16 7/16 × 23 3/16 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 2015.19.974
- Credit line
- Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund, 1960)
- Time span
- 1826 to 1850
- Department
- CG-W
Portfolio and series
- Portfolio
- Travels in the Interior of North America
Subjects and terms
- etching
- aquatint
- Swiss
- Native American
- mezzotint
- Shield
- Bison
- Spear
- Native American Dances
- genre
Provenance
(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1960; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Inscription
text in plate: Tab. 18 / K. Bodmer pinx. ad nat / Imp. de Chardon ainé et Aze / Alex. Manceau sculp. / Bisontanz der Mandan Indianer / vor der Medezin hütte / in Mih-Tutta-Hangkusch / Bison-Dance of the Mandan Indians / in front of their Medecine Lodge. / in Mih-Tutta-Hankush / Danse du Bison des Indiens Mandans / devant la Loge de Medecine / a Mih-Toutta-Hangkouche. / Coblenz bei J. Hölscher / London, published by Ackermann & Co. 90. Strand. / Paris. Arthus Bertrand, éditeur
Marks
blindstamped lower center: C. Bodmer / Direct
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