Title:
[Blessing of the Enrequita Mine, dedicated 1859, New Almaden, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Edouart, Alexander (1818-1892), British, artist (artist)
Date:
1860
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1360--FR
Format:
painting on canvas: oil
76.2 x 122 cm.
Content/Description:
Group of men and women, including Spaniards and Mexican laborers, some playing musical instruments, gather around makeshift
altar where priest blesses the mine. Women in fine dress, men, a dog, and horses stand in foreground; plume of steam rises
at right as group travels up trail; set in hilly landscape.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Signature and date (LL): A. Edouart, S[an] F[rancisco] 1860.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Clothing & dress;
Horses;
Rites & ceremonies
Genre/Format:
Landscapes;
Oil paintings