Title:
Oh boys, I've struck it heavy
Creator/Contributor:
Seamon, Victor (active ca. 1853), artist (artist)
Date:
1853
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0224--A
Format:
drawing on paper: watercolor, pen, and pencil
16.6 x 19.3 cm.
Content/Description:
Three miners along stream bank: one seated at left watches as another dances excitedly over pan of gold held up by the third
kneeling on bank; square hole and pick in background; cabin on distant hilltop.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Handwritten title (LC). Handwritten (LR, modern hand?): 1853, Victor Seamon. Handwritten poem (on verso) in French entitled:
Priere d'un naufrage. See also 1963.002:0223--A and 1963.002:0225 - 1963.002:0226--A (all are from the same notebook now mounted
as group). Inscriptions in English and French.
Subjects:
Clothing & dress;
Gold rushes;
Miners
Genre/Format:
Drawings;
Watercolors