Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Marryat, Francis Samuel (1826-1855), British, artist
Group Creator Name:
- Brandard, J., lithographer
- M. & N. Hanhart (active ca. 1851-ca. 1857), printer
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
Crossing the Isthmus [Panama]
Date:
[1855]
Materials:
print on paper mounted on board: lithograph, color
Dimensions:
13.5 x 18.5 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1440:8--A
Subject:
- Central America
- Indigenous peoples
- Packtrains
- Panama
- Voyages to
the Pacific
- Women
- Landscapes
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Chaotic scene showing travelers making way through tropical landscape; donkeys and horses throw passengers and drop cargo; natives carry westerners on their backs and pull their dogs; woman among group.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): F. Marryat; (LC, below title): M. & N. Hanhart, impt.; (LR): J. Brandard. From "Mountains and molehills, or Recollections of a burnt journal" by Frank Marryat (London, 1855).
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf7w1011n 9

Crossing the Isthmus [Panama]