Title devised by curator., Artist's signature in grey ink at lower right., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Part of "Drawings from the Old Zurich Hospital".
Subject (Geographic):
Switzerland.
Subject (Topic):
Psychiatric hospitals, Mental illness, Singing, and Sick persons
Title devised by curator. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Anatomy, Muscles, Anatomy, Artistic, and Academic art
A salted paper photographic print that documents placer gold mining operations on river bars on the American River, Middle Fork, between Placer County and Eldorado County, California in February 1858. From an elevated position, the view shows mining operations on a wide riverbed running through hills of chaparral. The photograph depicts a viaduct, wooden structures, and water diversion structures, such as sluices, sluice gates, and waterwheels. The image includes mining camps and operations on the Kennebec, Wildcat, Willow, and Hoosier bars
Description:
Charles L. Weed (1824-1903), also known as Charles Leander Weed, was an American photographer and engraver. and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
California, American River Region, American River, Middle Fork, American River Valley, American River, Middle Fork (Calif.), El Dorado County (Calif.), and Placer County (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Weed, Charles L.
Subject (Topic):
Chaparral, Diversion structures (Hydraulic engineering), Gold mines and mining, Mines and mineral resources, Mining districts, Placer mining, and Water-wheels
The writer Lady Louisa Stuart (1757-1851) was the daughter of George III’s prime minister Lord Bute. She is shown in a cluttered interior seated in an upholstered armchair at small table desk. She leans in to closely to read an open book that she holds in her hands. Lady Louisa Stuart’s manuscript notes on John Heneage Jesse's George Selwyn and his Contemporaries,” 1843-1844 sparked W.S. Lewis’s interest in the eighteenth century
Alternative Title:
Portrait of Lady Louisa Stuart, in an interior, reading book
Description:
Title devised by curator. and Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal: Portrait of Lady Louisa Stuart (1757-1851), in an interior, reading book
Title devised by curator., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Part of "Drawings from the Old Zurich Hospital".
Subject (Geographic):
Switzerland.
Subject (Topic):
Psychiatric hospitals, Mental illness, and Sick persons
Title devised by curator. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
Physical diagnosis, Hand lenses, Medicines, Tongues, Sick persons, and Physicians
Title devised by curator., Signed in pencil on verso., Date of production based on artist's death date., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Verso in pencil, "The Three Riders," verse, "HKB"., Signed HKB in ink lower right corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Two Asian figures, a woman and a girl, stand facing each other beneath tall bamboo plants; they wear traditional attire, perhaps that of China
Description:
Title from local card catalog record., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., Image partially cut out of sheet; the blank parts of the sheet have been trimmed away from the top half of the octagonal decorative border, and from around the figures and bamboo plants., Laid in at page 377 in Horace Walpole's copy of Matthew Prior's Poems on several occasions., and Temporary local subject terms: ?China: Social life and customs.