New Harmony on the Wabash

Description

The travelers arrived at Mount Vernon, Indiana, at twilight on October 18. The next morning Maximilian hired a wagon for the transportation of luggage and set out for the village of New Harmony, located some fifteen miles north. Dreidoppel accompanied the Prince while Bodmer and a recent acquaintance from the boat started out for New Harmony on foot. During the weeks that followed, Bodmer made numerous studies in and around New Harmony, including this unfinished view of the settlement as seen from a distance. A finished version of this scene was reproduced as Tableau 2 in the published atlas.