Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Lapham, Joseph M. (active 1852-1860), American, artist
Creator Name:
Needham, J., lithographer
Group Creator Name:
- Day & Son (active ca. 1850), British, lithographer
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Role:
lithographer
Title:
Wellingtonia Gigantea [redwood]: standing on the head waters of the Stanislaus & San Antoine Rivers in Calaveras County, California
Date:
[185-]
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, color
Dimensions:
63.5 x 46 cm., dome top
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0374--D
Subject:
- California, Northern
- Nature
- Plants
- Landscapes
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
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:
Notes:
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.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf2p30075 n

Wellingtonia Gigantea [redwood]: standing on the head waters of the Stanislaus & San…