Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Koppel, Charles (active ca. 1854), German, artist
Group Creator Name:
- A. Hoen & Company (active ca. 1854), lithographer
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
Valley in the slope of the Great Basin: leading from the Tejon Pass [California/Nevada]
Date:
[not before 1854]
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, color
Dimensions:
22.9 x 28.4 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0478:14--A
Subject:
- California, Southern
- Expeditions & surveys
- Nevada
- Railroads
- West
(U.S.)
- Illustrations
- Landscapes
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Desert landscape with tall cactus, surrounded by hills. Several figures on horseback make way across valley.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (UL): U.S.P.R.R. exp. & surveys, Cal[ifornia]; (UR): Geology plate XI. Printed (LL): From a sketch by Ch[arle]s Koppel; (LR): Lith. by A.Hoen & Co., Balto. Likely from the United States Pacific Railroad Survey in California, under the command of Lieut. R.S. Williamson, in 1853-54
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf0p3006j 7

Valley in the slope of the Great Basin: leading from the Tejon Pass [California/Nevada]