View on the Ohio

Description

Traveling downriver from Portland, Maximilian and his party went ashore briefly when the steamer docked at Albany to repair its engines. Bodmer shot a few birds at this time and Dreidoppel dutifully prepared them as specimens for Maximilian's zoological collection. Bodmer's sketch of the Ohio reproduced here is undated; it might have been done at any time during the course of the voyage downriver.