Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Lapham, Joseph M. (active 1852-1860), American, artist
Group Creator Name:
- Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
Mammoth Arbor Vitae [redwood]: standing on the head waters of the Stanislaus & San Antoine Rivers, in Calaveras County, California
Date:
c1853
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph
Dimensions:
59.2 x 46.4 cm., dome top
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1420--C
Subject:
- California, Northern
- Nature
- Plants
- Lithographs
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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; (LR): Lith. Britton & Rey, San Francisco; (LC, below title): Diameter 31 feet at the base- circumference 96 f[ee]t-height 290 f[ee]t, 3000 years old/Entered... 1853 by W.H Hanford...California . For variants see 1963.002:0374--D and 1963.002.375-C.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf9x0nb9j 3

Mammoth Arbor Vitae [redwood]: standing on the head waters of the Stanislaus & San A…