Title:
Forty-niner
Creator/Contributor:
Sloan, Blanding (active ca. 1931), etcher (etcher)
Date:
1931
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0920--B
Format:
print on paper: etching
40.7 x 31.8 cm.
Content/Description:
Bust length portrait of older, bearded man with deeply shadowed eyes and lined face wearing rumpled jacket and hat. Heraldic
motif of crossed pick and shovel over gold pan in upper left corner.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Handwritten title (LL). Signature (LR): Blanding Sloan. Printed (LL, within image): Blanding Sloan, [19]31. Printed label
(LC): Forty-Niners: A fast vanishing race... living links to a storied past, Philip Johnston.
Subjects:
Gold rushes;
Miners
Genre/Format:
Etchings;
Portraits