Title:
[Sacramento River, where the biggest known piece of gold was found, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Judels, A. (active ca. 1850), Dutch?, undetermined (undetermined)
Date:
[18--]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0662--A
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
16.6 x 23.4 cm., on mount 24.2 x 36.7 cm.
Content/Description:
Group of miners in camp along river gathered around man holding gold nugget; tens, cook fire, and equipment nearby with other
camps along river in distance. The nugget was apparently the largest ever found and weighed approximately thirteen pounds.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC): Sacremento Rivier waar Het Grootste Bekende Stuk Goud Gevonden Is., Californie: Dit Stuk Goud woog circa
dertien pond in zuiver gehalt. Printed (LC, above title): Te Amsterdam by Judels. Label attached to mount (on verso): John
Howell/importer and publisher of books/434 Post Street, San Francisco 2/California/Sacramento River, where the/biggest known
piece of gold/was found, California. This/piece of gold weighed approxi-/mately 13 pounds of pure finess./Translated from
Dutch title. /California on Stone, p. 130/Excessively rare. Inscriptions in Dutch.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Camping;
Gold rushes;
Miners;
Mining;
Rivers;
Sacramento (Calif.)
Genre/Format:
Landscapes;
Lithographs, color