Title:
[View of Greenwood Valley, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Rupalley, Jules (active ca. 1849-ca. 1859), French, artist (artist)
Date:
1851
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1305:005--ALB
Format:
drawing on tinted paper: wash, pen, and pencil
18.4 x 21.8 cm., image
Content/Description:
Small mining town with main street running from left to right; mostly one-story wooden buildings line each side; small figures,
horses and horse-drawn carriages scattered throughout scene; groups of miners, some digging with picks. Sparsely forested
hills in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Signature (LR): J.R. fecit. Handwritten: Greenwood Valley, 1851, California, nord. Inscriptions in French
and English.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Dwellings;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Gold rushes;
Mining;
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Travel sketches;
Wash drawings