Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh collection of photographs and drawings of the Colorado River region.
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | Folder 153
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
A kneeling man fills a bucket at a pump in the desert, another man appears to be holding testing equipment while a third man stands with a buggy whip next to his team of two horses and buggy.
Description:
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, a member of John Wesley Powells second expedition down the Colorado River (1871-1873); author of the Romance of the Colorado River and A Canyon Voyage, and numerous other books.
A view with an active volcano in the center in the distance, steam rising from the top. On the right on a hilltop is a walled monastery. In the foreground, one woman rides on a horse side saddle while another woman walks ahead; the two are followed by a dog. The areas of the drawing are numbered as follows: 1. The hillside, 2. The wall surrounding the monestary, 3. The river surrounding the hillside, 4. The active volcano in the center of the image, 5. A range of hills on the left in the far distance, and 6. the hills mid-iew, beneath the active volcano. In the upper left corner, the image is numbered "XI".
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Geographic):
Italy
Subject (Topic):
Dogs, Horses, Monasteries, Volcanoes, Volcanic eruptions, and Women
No.1, opposite page 22. Miscellaneous antiquities, or A collection of curious papers ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A drawing of a mounted knight in full armor facing right; his horse, a caparison over its head and hindquarters, is rearing. The banner above the design is blank
Description:
Title from local catalog card., Artist unidentified., Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound., and Mounted opposite page 22 in no.1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Miscellaneous antiquities, or A collection of curious papers ... Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXII [1772].
