Lynx

Description

On Christmas Eve, Maximilian recorded in his journal that "a backwoods man came riding in on horseback from a distance of twelve miles and brought us a fine lynx ... for which I paid him two dollars .... The lynx was beautiful, but exceedingly slender. His feet were very thin." Although he makes no specific reference to Bodmer's having sketched this specimen, the dated inscription on the reverse of this study is the same as the journal entry.