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Wenona's Leap, Lake Pepin, Mississippi River

image courtesy of Minneapolis Institute of Art | Public Domain

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Date

1851

Artist

Seth Eastman (1808-1875)

Collection

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Description

This meticulous landscape is Seth Eastman's illustration for a story interpreted and then published by his second wife, Mary Henderson Eastman. In Mary’s version, young Wenona’s parents wanted her to marry Chaskè, a good hunter, but she loved another. One day, while her friends hunted porcupines along the shores of Lake Pepin along the Mississippi, they watched her jump off a cliff; this work depicts the moments before her leap. As Mary recounted in “The Maiden’s Rock; or, Wenona’s Leap”: “She was there indeed, loudly and wildly singing her dirge, an invocation to the Spirit of the Rock, calm and unconcerned in her dangerous position, while all was terror and excitement among her friends below her.”

Image Licence

Public Domain

Image Credit

image courtesy of Minneapolis Institute of Art

Location

Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, USA

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Mountains
Boats
People
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Social Life
Lakes
Cliffs

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Landscapes & Seascapes

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