Title:
[Original big tree and father of the forest]
Creator/Contributor:
Vischer, Edward (1808-1879), German, artist and publisher (artist and publisher)
Kuchel, C. C. (1820-ca. 1865), Swiss, lithographer (lithographer)
Nagel, Louis (active ca. 1844-ca. 1873), German, printer (printer)
Date:
c1862
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0385.07--ALB
Format:
print on paper mounted on board: lithograph, color
27.7 x 34.7 cm.
Content/Description:
Two views of original big tree (from photographs) showing stairway to top of stump and log with people sitting on top; and
one view of father of the forest lying on floor of grove.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Printed (UL): The Mammoth grove; (UC): Vischer's views of California; (UR): Plate VII; (MC): Stump and log
of the original big tree, 1855, from photographs; (LC): The father of the forest/Partially buried in the ground, circumference
at the root 112 feet, estimated height, before its downfall, 450 feet/ Entered...1862 by Edward Vischer... California.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Nature;
Plants
Genre/Format:
Lithographs, color