Title:
Beale & Craven's magnificent twelve-mile mirror of the voyage from Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] to California
Creator/Contributor:
Beale & Craven (active ca. 1851), undetermined (undetermined)
Date:
[1851]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0937--B
Format:
print on paper: engraving and letterpress
43.3 x 16.7 cm.
Content/Description:
Broadside advertising exhibition, to be held in Alhambra Hall, of four panorama paintings showing scenes from voyage. Each
panorama described in detail, all purportedly painted by Mr. Hielge in March 1851 from drawings made on the spot by other
eminent artists. Vignette of large sidewheel steamship at top of broadside.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (UC): First time in this city!/Beale & Craven's/magnificent twelve-mile mirror/of the voyage from/Philadelphia
to/California/and the gold mines!/And from California to Boston!/The outward voyage around Cape Horn, and/return by the Isthmus/Now
open at Alhambra Hall.
Subjects:
Vessels;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Advertisements;
Broadsides;
Engravings