Chromolithograph of "Mirage on the Colorado Desert"
Chromolithograph of "Mirage on the Colorado Desert"
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- Description
- This chromolithograph of “Mirage on the Colorado Desert” was originally drawn by William P. Blake (1826–1910), the mineralogist and geologist of the expedition. It was printed as "Geology, Plate XII" in the geological report of the second part 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, “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” by William P. Blake. The volume was printed in 1857 by Beverley Tucker in Washington, D.C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Object Type
- Tinted Lithograph
- Other Terms
- print; Chromolithograph
- date made
- 1856
- publisher
- U.S. War Department
- printer
- Tucker, Beverley
- expedition leader
- Williamson, Robert Stockton
- Blake, William Phipps
- original artist
- Blake, William Phipps
- graphic artist
- unknown
- publisher
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
- Place Made
- United States: District of Columbia, Washington
- Physical Description
- paper (overall materials)
- ink (overall materials)
- Measurements
- overall: 21 cm x 29.5 cm; 8 1/4 in x 11 5/8 in
- ID Number
- GA.10729.32
- accession number
- 62261
- Credit Line
- Estate of Lt. Col. Edgar A. Mearns, USA (Ret.)
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- Survey Prints
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Transportation
- Art
- Measuring & Mapping
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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