Title:
[Placer mining at Foster's Bar, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Narjot, Ernest (1826-1898), French, artist (artist)
Date:
185[1?]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1353--FR
Format:
painting on millboard: oil
30.2 x 35.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Gold mining operation along bank of river; miners at work with sluices and two wooden hydraulic waterwheels. Camp with makeshift
huts and tents on hillside.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Signature and date (LL): E. Narjot, 185[1?]. Label (on verso): Prepared Millboard/Winsor & Newton.... Handwritten
annotations (on verso).
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Camping;
Equipment;
Gold rushes;
Miners;
Mining
Genre/Format:
Oil paintings