Title:
Views from a trip to California
Creator/Contributor:
Eccleston, Richard., creator
Abstract:
Includes: a gold miner, California quail, flying fish, a Mexican vaquero, a woman on horseback, a portrait of an unidentified
woman (in Spanish style dress?), and a seemingly unrelated portrait of Ninon de L'Enclos. One copy photograph of a portrait
of Eccleston is also included. Calligraphic ms. title page: "Journal, with views of California by Richard Eccleston. 1855.
California"
Date:
ca. 1855 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Gold miners -- California -- Pictorial works
California -- Pictorial works
Note:
drawn by Richard Eccleston.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Richard Eccleston is believed to be the younger brother of Robert Eccleston, who kept diaries of his 1849 trip to California.
Richard worked, later in life, for the Immigration Service on Angel Island, in San Francisco Bay.
Type:
graphic
Drawings.
Physical Description:
graphic
drawing
9 items (7 pencil drawings, 1 ms. title page, 1 photographic print) : pencil and ink on paper.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 2004.037--AXLOCAL
Origin:
California