Title:
[Gold mines of California]
Creator/Contributor:
Hollier (active 1850s), French?, lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Date:
[185-?]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0250--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
25.3 x 33.4 cm.
Content/Description:
Fight in foreground with main figure (Derville) brandishing sword over two dead bodies and man with gun on ground; miners
work in river and on bank; grizzly bear in background with palm trees and mountains.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (UC): Les Mines d'Or de la Californie. Printed (LR): Paris, Lith. Hollier, r. Galande 37. Printed text (LC)
describes fictional? character Derville and his adventures in California. Inscriptions in French.
Subjects:
Clothing & dress;
Criminals;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes;
Miners;
Mining
Genre/Format:
Lithographs, color;
Portraits