Title:
[Incident on the Chagres River, Panama]
Creator/Contributor:
Nahl, Charles Christian (1818-1878), German, artist (artist)
Date:
1867
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1361--FR
Format:
painting on canvas: oil
68.2 x 94.4 cm.
Content/Description:
Flat boat with small group of passengers being poled up river over shallow rapids by native polers; one pole man goes overboard;
old boat wreakage wedged under flotsam-laden outcropping in river. Tropical vegetation frames scene; two cows on shore, far
left.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Signature and date: (LL): Charles Nahl, 1867.
Subjects:
Animals;
Cattle;
Central America;
Nature;
Panama;
Rivers;
Vessels;
Voyages to the Pacific
Genre/Format:
Landscapes;
Oil paintings