Title:
[Portrait heads of Indians of California]
Creator/Contributor:
Choris, Ludwig (1795-1828), Russian, artist (artist)
Date:
[1822]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0365--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
26 x 41.3 cm.
Content/Description:
Five portraits of California Indians (en face, 3/4, and in profile) wearing native clothes; two types decorated with tattoos.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC): Habitants de Californie. Printed (LR): des[sin]é et lith[]e L. Choris. Plate number VI (UR). Numbers 1-5
identify each figure. Lithographs based on sketches made during 1816 visit to California were published in L. Choris' Voyage
Pittoresque Autour du Monde (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1822). Inscriptions in French.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Clothing & dress;
Discovery & exploration;
Indians of North America;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Lithographs, color;
Portraits;
Travel sketches