Title:
[Gambling scene]
Creator/Contributor:
[Unknown]
Date:
[ca. 1850]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0293--B
Format:
drawing on tinted paper: pen and ink
20.9 x 26.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Gold Rush gambling scene; bearded gambler, wearing top hat, deals cards at table surrounded by diverse crowd of men including
Chinese, Mexican, and Spaniard types, miners and others. Drunken man with gun dangling from left hand leans against wall at
right; bar at rear.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Blind stamp (UR). Note from Inventory Sheets: This was reproduced as Book Club of California Keepsake: Pictorial
Humor of the Gold Rush, No. 7; see also 1963.002:0294. Related item, former Rosecrans Collection. The group of drawings 1963.002:0283
- 1963.002:0301 appear to be related. Some share stylistic, physical, and topical characteristics and may have came from the
same source. For more information see Inventory Sheets.
Subjects:
Clothing & dress;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes;
Manners & customs
Genre/Format:
Drawings