Title:
Battle of San Gabriel, California
Creator/Contributor:
Southwick, John, artist (artist)
Worcester & Co., undetermined (undetermined)
Date:
[not before 1847]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0405--A
Format:
print on paper: engraving
21 x 28.2 cm.
Content/Description:
Battle of the Rio San Gabriel which occurred on January 8, 1847. Artillery and riflemen in center; mounted Californians, Mexicans,
and Indians at left and right; dead and wounded in background.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Date in pencil (LR): 1851. Printed (LL): Worcester & Co. Scene drawn by John Southwick of the United States
Navy (information from text below image). Clipping from: Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion. Handwritten (on verso):
Should be 1847.
Subjects:
California, Southern;
Events;
Frontier & pioneer life
Genre/Format:
Engravings