Title:
Mammoth Arbor Vitae [redwood]: standing on the head waters of the Stanislaus & San Antoine Rivers, in Calaveras County, California
Creator/Contributor:
Lapham, Joseph M. (active 1852-1860), American, artist (artist)
Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
c1853
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1420--C
Format:
print on paper: lithograph
59.2 x 46.4 cm., dome top
Content/Description:
Giant redwood standing in clearing; tent, Indians with bows and papoose, and western couple in foreground. Detail of pine
cone below main image.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): From nature by J.M. Lapham; (LR): Lith. Britton & Rey, San Francisco; (LC, below title):
Diameter 31 feet at the base- circumference 96 f[ee]t-height 290 f[ee]t, 3000 years old/Entered... 1853 by W.H Hanford...California.
For variants see 1963.002:0374--D and 1963.002.375-C.
Subjects:
California, Northern;
Nature;
Plants
Genre/Format:
Lithographs