Title:
The Truckee Meadows [California]
Creator/Contributor:
Fenn, Harry (1845-1911), British, artist (attributed to) (artist)
Date:
1890
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1391--A
Format:
drawing on heavy paper: pen
18.5 x 32 cm.
Content/Description:
Circle of wagons in meadow with high mountains in distance and river to right.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Handwritten title (LC). Signature and date (LL): FH (monogram of Harry Fenn), [18]90. Handwritten (LC, below title): The old
camping rendezvous, the resting place after crossing the desert and before starting to cross the Sierra Nevadas.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Camping;
Overland journeys to the Pacific;
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.);
Vehicles;
Westward movement
Genre/Format:
Drawings;
Landscapes