Title:
View of Grass Valley [Nevada County, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Ogilby, Robert E. (Ogibly) (active ca. 1852-ca. 1868), artist (artist)
Sarony & Major (active ca.1846-ca. 1857), American, lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
[1852?]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0849--FR
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
53 x 68.8 cm., visible image, dome top
Content/Description:
City in Sierra Nevada foothills; gated pastures in foreground, houses and buildings in middleground; figures throughout scene
including hunter and miner, Indians with baskets, and well-dressed man and woman.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): R.E. Ogilby, del.; (LR): Lith. of Sarony & Major, New York; (LC, below title): Drawn expressly
for and respectfuly dedicated to General Winchester by his obligated and humble servant the artist. A llithography of Grass
Valley, 1852, is kept by Society of California Pioneers (Hughes).
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Settlements
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Lithographs, color