Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), Idols of the Mandan Indians Landscape & City Sauthier also played a key

Sauthier also played a key role in the planning of the Tryon Palace gardens in New Bern

rather than Amerigo Vespucci

Both maps include the odd coastline and apocryphal river rising from the Florida Panhandle

A Carmelite friar

Watercolor for plate 172: “Martinico Iris” Iris martinicensis

Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), Idols of the Mandan Indians Landscape & City Sauthier also played a keyKARL BODMER From Travels in the Interior of North America Hand colored aquatint engravings Paris, 1832 1843 Sheet Size: 24 3 4 x 18 THE MOST ACCLAIMED BOOK ON AMERICAN INDIAN LIFE AND THE AMERICAN FRONTIER. Karl Bodmer was a little known Swiss painter when he was chosen by Prince Maximilian of Prussia to accompany his voyage to America, in order to document in pictorial terms the expedition. With the rest of Maximilians company, the two traveled among