Title:
Miners weighing their gold/The dream of a prospecting miner
Creator/Contributor:
Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer and publisher (lithographer and publisher)
Date:
[18--]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0098--B
Format:
print on tinted paper: pen lithograph
26.5 x 21.4 cm., image on sheet 26.5 x 42.8 cm.
Content/Description:
Upper image shows three miners with scale, pans, bread, rifle, bottles, and candle sitting at large table. Lower image depicts
sleeping man in nature by fire: rifle, pistol, dagger and other objects near by; vignettes represent his dreams related to
gold mining.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (upper image): Miners weighing their gold; (lower image): The dream of a propecting miner. Printed (LC): Lith.
& published by Britton & Rey, corner Montgomery & California st[reet]s, S[an] Francisco. Blind stamp (LL): Rolland Freres,
Bordeaux. See also 1963.002:0308--A.
Subjects:
Arms & armaments;
Equipment;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes;
Miners;
Mining
Genre/Format:
Lithographs;
Pictorial lettersheets