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Title: [Pleasures of bathing in the Sacramento River, California (plate)]
Creator: Lanz (active ca. 1850), French?, artist (attributed to)
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1850]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Man in bathing trunks surprised by alligator as he wades into river; figure in mouth alligator in distance; tropical foliage.
Printed title (LC): Plaisirs du bain dans le Sacramento. Printed (LC, above title): No. 6. Manufacturer's stamp (on verso): Creil et Montereau/Porcel Opaque. L.M. & Cie. Medailles d'or 1834, 39, 44, et 49. Inscriptions in French.
Type: image
Format: Print on porcelain plate: engraving 21.2 x 21.2 cm., diameter
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2t1nb4hb
BANC PIC 1963.002:1871--OBJ
Subject: Animals
California, Northern
Manners & customs
Rivers
Sacramento (Calif.)

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