Title:
Hank Monk: the Schottische [J. P. Meder]
Creator/Contributor:
Marshall, J. P. (J. B.?) (active 1876-1877), artist (artist)
Hunter, Thomas (active ca. 1878), lithographer (lithographer)
Fox, John G. (active ca. 1878), publisher (publisher)
Date:
c1878
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1760--AX
Format:
print on paper: lithograph
36 x 27.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Three-quarter length portrait of stagecoach driver Hank Monk in decorative medallion in upper left. Speeding stagecoach (Pioneer
Stagecoach Company) full of passengers pulled by four horses and driven by Monk; high snow-covered peaks in distance. Related
to trip made by Horace Greeley (seated next to Monk?).
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title. Printed (LR, within image): J.P. Marshall; (LL): Copyright 1878 by John G. Fox; (LC): Published by John G.
Fox, Carson City, Nev[ada]; (LR): Tho[ma]s Hunter, lith., Phila[delphia].
Subjects:
Animals;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Horses;
Overland journeys to the Pacific;
Vehicles
Genre/Format:
Lithographs;
Portraits;
Sheet music covers