Chromolithograph of "Colorado Desert and Signal Mountain"
- Description
- This chromolithograph of “Colorado Desert and Signal Mountain” was originally drawn by Charles Koppel and printed as Plate XI in the first report of volume V of Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, “Explorations In California for Railroad Routes, to Connect with the Routes near the 35th and 32nd Parallels of North Latitude.” The volume was printed in 1856 by Beverley Tucker in Washington, D.C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- print
- Object Type
- Chromolithograph
- date made
- 1856
- original artist
- Koppel, Charles
- publisher
- U.S. War Department
- author
- Williamson, Robert Stockton
- printer
- Tucker, Beverley
- graphic artist
- unknown
- publisher
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
- Physical Description
- paper (overall materials)
- ink (overall materials)
- Measurements
- overall: 23.2 cm x 29.9 cm; 9 1/8 in x 11 3/4 in
- Place Made
- United States: District of Columbia
- ID Number
- GA*10729.26
- accession number
- 1918.62261
- subject
- Art
- Communications
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Measuring & Mapping
- Military
- Natural Resources
- Science & Mathematics
- Transportation
- Survey Prints
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- Culture and the Arts: Graphic Arts
- Survey Prints
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
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