The Cutoff River, Branch of the Wabash

Description

Representing the natural landscape near New Harmony allowed Bodmer a freedom of artistic expression not easily realized within the formal constraints of scientific illustration, portraiture, or architectural description. This view of the Cutoff River, a tributary of the Wabash, probably made in late November or early December of 1832, was later featured as Vignette VIII in the atlas of aquatints published in Europe.