Peacocks on a Bough

Karl Bodmer (Swiss, 1809-1893)

c. 1870

Medium

Etching on cream laid paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Image: 19.6 × 12.9 cm (7 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.); Plate: 23.8 × 16.1 cm (9 3/8 × 6 3/8 in.); Sheet: 37.9 × 27.4 cm (14 15/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

Culture

Switzerland

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings

Credit line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Prints
• Animals
• Birds
• 1800s
• Switzerland
• Orange