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Title
[The miner's dream]
Creator
Unknown, artist
Contributor
Unknown, artist
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1860]
Publication Information
The Bancroft Library;;University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, Phone: (510) 642-6481, Fax: (510) 642-7589, Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu;;, URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
Framed Items From The Collections Of The Bancroft Library
Rights Information
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All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html
Description
Content/DescriptionView of Australian gold miner seated at a desk asleep, dreaming of a winter homecoming with family, after having read a letter that has fallen to the floor. Set in a rustic cabin, several books lay on the desk while a dog and dead bird lay at his feet.
Type
image
Format
1 painting : oil ; visible image 44 x 34 cm.
Form/Genre
Oil paintings
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt9f59p0gg
BANC PIC 1970.038--FR
brk00001158_20a.tif
Subject
Cabins
Dreams--Pictorial works
Gold miners--Australia--Pictorial works
Miners--Australia--Pictorial works

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