Title:
Making nothing
Creator/Contributor:
Seamon, Victor (active ca. 1853), artist (artist)
Date:
[1853]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0225--A
Format:
drawing on paper: watercolor, pen, and pencil
16.6 x 19.3 cm.
Content/Description:
Two miners near stream bank, one man sitting dejectedly, other man standing with crossed arms before square hole in ground.
Pick, shovel, and empty gold pan lay on ground nearby; hills, trees, and cabin with two other miners in far distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Handwritten title (LC). Handwritten poem, untitled (on verso). Handwritten (LR, on verso): In memory of [T]essie Killian (modern
hand?). See also 1963.002:0223--A, 1963.002:0224--A and 1963.002:0226--A (all are from the same notebook now mounted as group).
Subjects:
Equipment;
Gold rushes;
Miners;
Mining
Genre/Format:
Drawings;
Watercolors