Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Wellingtonia Gigantea [redwood]: standing on the head waters of the Stanislaus & San Antoine Rivers in Calaveras County, California
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Creator Name:
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Lapham, Joseph M. (active 1852-1860), American, artist
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Creator Name:
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Needham, J., lithographer
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Group Creator Name:
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- Day & Son (active ca. 1850), British, lithographer
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Role:
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lithographer
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Title:
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Wellingtonia Gigantea [redwood]: standing on the head waters of the Stanislaus & San Antoine Rivers in Calaveras County, California
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Date:
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[185-]
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Materials:
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print on paper: lithograph, color
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Dimensions:
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63.5 x 46 cm., dome top
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Current Location:
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Bancroft Library.
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Address:
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Berkeley, California 94720-6000
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Object ID:
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BANC PIC 1963.002:0374--D
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Subject:
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- California, Northern
- Nature
- Plants
- Landscapes
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
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Notes:
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Giant redwood standing in clearing; tent, Indians with bows and papoose, and western couple in foreground. Detail of pine cone below main image.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
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Notes:
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Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): From nature by J.M. Lapham, J. Needham, lith.; (LR): Day & Son, lith[ographe]rs to the Queen; (LR): Diameter 31 feet at the base, height 290 feet, estimated age 3000 years; (LC, below title): Introduced to England by messrs. Veitch & Son of Exeter, and of the Exotic Nursery, Kings Road, Chelsea, through their collector Mr. W[illia]m Lobb. For variants see 1963.002:0375--C and 1963.002.1420--C.
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/tf2p30075n
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