Title:
Committee of Vigilance of San Francisco [California, certificate], reorganized 15th May, 1856
Creator/Contributor:
Nahl, Charles Christian (1818-1878), German, artist (artist)
Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
c1856
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0647 (variant)--C
Format:
print on paper mounted on paper: lithograph, hand colored
50.7 x 38.6 cm., on mount 63.3x 42.8 cm.
Content/Description:
Awarded to Giram S. Wheeler. Includes allegorical images related to justice, vigilance, and morality; and scenes of military
events.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (MC). Printed (MC, below title):Entered... 1856... Ch[arles] Nahl & C. E. Lange... Ca[lifornia]; (LL): Designed
& drawn on stone by Cha[rle]s Nahl; (LR): Lith[ograph]y of Britton & Rey, S[an] F[rancisco].
Subjects:
Military personnel
Genre/Format:
Allegories;
Certificates;
Lithographs, color