Title:
Mammoth Arbor Vitae [redwood]: standing on the head waters of the Stanislaus & San Antoine Rivers, in Calaveras County, California
Creator/Contributor:
Kipps, A. K. (active ca. 1861), artist (artist)
Daniels, J. H. (active ca. 1861), lithographer (lithographer)
Dayton, Charles Francis (active ca. 1861), publisher (publisher)
Date:
c1861
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0375--C
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
60.5 x 48.2 cm.
Content/Description:
Giant redwood standing in clearing; tent, Indians with bows and papoose, and western couple in foreground. Detail of pine
cone below main image.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn A.K. Kipps; (LR): J.H. Daniels Lith. Boston; (LC, below title): Diameter 31 feet at
the base- circumference 96 f[ee]t-height 290 f[ee]t, 3000 years old/ Boston, published by C.F. Dayton, 134 Washington St[reet]/
Entered...1861 by Charles Francis Dayton...Massachusetts. For variants see 1963.002:0374--D and 1963.002.1420--C.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Nature;
Plants
Genre/Format:
Landscapes;
Lithographs, color