Title:
[Entrance to the cinnabar mine at New Almaden, California]
Creator/Contributor:
Wikersheim, Fritz (active ca. 1847-1851), French, artist (artist)
Date:
[1845-1851]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1304:46--ALB
Format:
drawing on tinted paper: pencil and white chalk
21.5 x 13.8 cm.
Content/Description:
Room that leads into cinnabar mine (mercury); heavily timbered supports of roof; young man or boy (Mexican or Indian) sits
with guitar near half-open door.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC): Californie - Entrée de la mine de cinabre de la nueva almaden. Inscriptions in French.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Interiors;
Mining
Genre/Format:
Drawings;
Travel sketches