Title:
Leaving the diggings
Creator/Contributor:
Seamon, Victor (active ca. 1853), artist (artist)
Date:
1853
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0226--A
Format:
drawing on paper: watercolor, pen, and pencil
16.6 x 19.3 cm.
Content/Description:
Prospectors making their way towards port town. Two men at left (saying farewells?); two in center come along path looking
toward distant town and sidewheel steamship; horseman rides across open plain in middle distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Handwritten title (LC). Handwritten (LR): 1853, Victor Seamon. Handwritten poem entitled "William and Maria" on verso. See
also 1963.002:0223--A - 1963.002:0225--A (all are from the same notebook now mounted as group).
Subjects:
Gold rushes;
Miners
Genre/Format:
Drawings;
Watercolors