Identifier: smithsonianmisce1341958smit (find matches)
Title: Smithsonian miscellaneous collections
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution
Subjects: Science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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issubjects. Not infrequently, he exaggerated or omitted importantdetails of dress. (Ewers, 1956, pp. 495-498). Nevertheless, Cat-lins very practice of painting from a model may have been a noveltyin method of rendering the human figure that impressed some ofhis Indian sitters who had been familiar only with the generalizedrepresentations of humans created by native picture writers. CARL BODMER AMONG THE MANDAN, 1833-34 Carl Bodmer, on the other hand, was a meticulous draughtsmanthoroughly trained in the best European traditions of drawing fromthe model. The German scientist Prince Maximilian zu Wied care-fully picked young, Swiss-born Bodmer (he was only in his earlytwenties) to accompany him on his travels in America for the pur-pose of making drawings that would illustrate his own scientificobservations. The exacting scientist expected his artists record tobe no less accurate in every detail than would be his own writings. SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 134, NO. 7, PL. 5
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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 134, NO. 7, PL. 6

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