Chromolithograph of "Mirage on the Colorado Desert"
date: label: date made
content: 1856
name: label: publisher
content: U.S. War Department
label: printer
content: Tucker, Beverley
label: expedition leader
content: Williamson, Robert Stockton
label: author
content: Blake, William Phipps
label: original artist
content: Blake, William Phipps
label: graphic artist
content: unknown
label: publisher
content: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
notes: label: Description
content: This tinted lithograph of “Mirage on the Colorado River” was prepared after an original sketch by ah expedition geologist and artist William P. Blake (1826-1910). It was printed as Plate XII in Volume V, Part II following page 250 in the "Geological Report by W. P. Blake, Geologist and Minerologist to the Expedition," as part of Volume V, Part II 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
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
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Lt. Col. Edgar A. Mearns, USA (Ret.)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.10729.32
label: accession number
content: 62261
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Type
content: Tinted Lithograph
label: Other Terms
content: print; Chromolithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall materials)
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content: ink (overall materials)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 cm x 29.5 cm; 8 1/4 in x 11 5/8 in