Aquatint plate from the atlas volume of the English or French edition of Prince Maximilian of Wied's Voyage dans l'Intérieur de l'Amérique du Nord (Reise in das innere Nord-America), an eerie scene on the Wabash River in Illinois, tangled branches and vines overhanging the banks, a vulture-like bird overlooking the water. Numbered Vig. VIII at upper right. Image approx. 6¾x10, impression 10x13¾, sheet size 11½x16¾.

Finely engraved plate from the atlas volume of the important travel narrative by Prince Maximilian, noted naturalist and explorer. He was accompanied on the expedition by the Swiss artist Carl Bodmer, whose numerous sketches in the field were used to illustrate the monumental work. All three editions, German, English and French, used the same atlas, issued in Paris; the present plate has the imprints of the German and French publishers as well as the English (which is in the center), and has Bodmer's embossed stamp in lower margin. The captions are in German, French and English (the English being smaller), indicating it is from the French or English edition, English captions not being present on the German edition plates. This is one of the smaller "vignetten" plates, sometimes issued separately from the larger atlas plates.