Title:
The Yo-Hamite Falls [Yosemite Falls, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Ayres, Thomas A. (1816-1858), American, artist (artist)
Kuchel & Dresel (active ca. 1853-ca. 1865), lithographer (lithographer)
Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), printer (printer)
Date:
c1855
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0402--D
Format:
print on paper mounted on board: lithograph, hand colored
68.1 x 52.6 cm.
Content/Description:
Upper and lower Yosemite Falls; figures by campfire and horses near Merced River in foreground.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (UC): Hutchings' panoramic scenes in California; (LL): Sketched from nature by T.A. Ayres; (LC,
above title): Entered... 1855 by James M. Hutchings... Cal[ifornia]/on stone by Kuchel & Dresel, 146 Clay St[reet], S[an]
F[rancisco]; (LC, below title): situated in the Yo-Hamite Valley, near the source of the middle fork of the River Merced,
Mariposa County, California/height of main fall 1300 feet, whole height from valley 2300 feet; (LR): Printed by Britton &
Rey. For original see 1963.002:1326--C.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Mountains;
Nature;
Yosemite Valley (Calif.)
Genre/Format:
Landscapes;
Lithographs, color