The Basin from the Canada de Las Uvas with Lost Mountains in the Distance
date: label: date made
content: 1856
name: label: original artist
content: Koppel, Charles
label: graphic artist
content: A. Hoen & Co.
label: printer
content: Tucker, Beverley
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tinted lithograph of “The Great Basin from the Canada de Las Uvas with Lost Mountain in the Distance" was produced by A. Hoen & Company (fl. 1848-1943) Baltimore, after an original sketch by expedition artist Charles Koppel (fl. 1853-1865) after an original sketch by William P. Blake (1825-1810). It was printed as Plate VIII in Volume V, Part I, following page 26, in the "General Report," part of the “Routes in California, to Connect with the Routes near the Thirty–Fifth and Thirty–Second Parallels, Explored by Lieutenant R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers, in 1853."
label: Description (Brief)
content: The volume was printed as part of the "Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean" in 1856 by A. P. O. Nicholson (1808-1876) of Washington, D.C.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Transcontinental Railroad
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.10729.15
label: catalog number
content: 10729.15
label: accession number
content: 62261
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Type
content: Tinted Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall materials)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall materials)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29.8 cm x 23.2 cm; 11 3/4 in x 9 1/8 in