Image / [Blessing of the Enrequita Mine, dedicated 1859, New Almaden, California]

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Title: [Blessing of the Enrequita Mine, dedicated 1859, New Almaden, California]
Creator: Edouart, Alexander (1818-1892), British, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1860
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: Group of men and women, including Spaniards and Mexican laborers, some playing musical instruments, gather around makeshift altar where priest blesses the mine. Women in fine dress, men, a dog, and horses stand in foreground; plume of steam rises at right as group travels up trail; set in hilly landscape.
Supplied title. Signature and date (LL): A. Edouart, S[an] F[rancisco] 1860.
Type: image
Format: Painting on canvas: oil 76.2 x 122 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3w10094q
BANC PIC 1963.002:1360--FR
Subject: California, Northern
Clothing & dress
Horses
Rites & ceremonies

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