View of Benecia from the West
date: label: date made
content: 1856
name: label: original artist
content: Koppel, Charles
label: graphic artist
content: Sinclair, Thomas
label: publisher
content: Tucker, Beverley
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This tinted lithograph of “View of Benecia from the West" was produced by Thomas Sinclair (1807-1881) of Philadelphia after an original sketch by expedition artist Charles Koppel (fl. 1853-1865). It was printed as Plate I in Volume V, Part I, as a frontispiece, in the "General Report," as 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
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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.10729.25
label: accession number
content: 62261
label: catalog number
content: 10729.25
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: 29.7 cm x 23 cm; 11 11/16 in x 9 1/16 in