Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Kuchel, C. C. (1820-ca. 1865), Swiss, lithographer
Creator Name:
Nagel, Louis (active ca. 1844-ca. 1873), German, printer
Creator Name:
Vischer, Edward (1808-1879), German, artist and publisher
Creator Role:
artist and publisher
Creator Role:
lithographer
Creator Role:
printer
Title:
[Original big tree and father of the forest]
Date:
c1862
Materials:
print on paper mounted on board: lithograph, color
Dimensions:
27.7 x 34.7 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0385.07--AL B
Subject:
- California, Northern
- Nature
- Plants
- Lithographs, color
Heading:
Content/Description:
Notes:
Two views of original big tree (from photographs) showing stairway to top of stump and log with people sitting on top; and one view of father of the forest lying on floor of grove.
Heading:
Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Supplied title. Printed (UL): The Mammoth grove; (UC): Vischer's views of California; (UR): Plate VII; (MC): Stump and log of the original big tree, 1855, from photographs; (LC): The father of the forest/Partially buried in the ground, circumference at the root 112 feet, estimated height, before its downfall, 450 feet/ Entered...1862 by Edward Vischer... California.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf709nb7s 7

[Original big tree and father of the forest]