Title:
View of the Playa Prieta, Panama
Creator/Contributor:
Day & Son (active ca. 1850), British, lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
[not before 1850]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1478--B
Format:
print on paper: lithograph
28.5 x 40.7 cm.
Content/Description:
Tropical beach front and bay with large crowd gathered for launching ceremony for sidewheel steamship standing on beach; natives
in foreground
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, below title): shewing the launch of the French steamer Colibri, Nov[embe]r 27th, 1850/(the
first steamer constructed in the Republic of New Granada). Printed (LL): Drawn on the spot; (LR): Day & Son, Lith[ographe]rs
to The Queen.
Subjects:
Bays;
Central America;
Indigenous peoples;
Panama;
Rites & ceremonies;
Vessels;
Waterfronts
Genre/Format:
Lithographs