California gold mining group including Chinese miner
Primary TitleCalifornia gold mining group including Chinese miner
Exhibition TitleCalifornia gold mining group including Chinese miner
Artist
William J. Shew
(American, 1820 - 1903)
Dateca. 1853
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsPlate (half): 4 1/4 × 5 1/2 inches (10.8 × 13.97 cm)
Case (open): 9 1/2 × 6 × 3/8 inches (24.13 × 15.24 × 0.97 cm)
Case (closed): 4 3/4 × 6 × 5/8 inches (12.07 × 15.24 × 1.6 cm)
Case (open): 9 1/2 × 6 × 3/8 inches (24.13 × 15.24 × 0.97 cm)
Case (closed): 4 3/4 × 6 × 5/8 inches (12.07 × 15.24 × 1.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.68.150
SignedArtist's attribution stamped on mat recto, lower right corner: "WM SHEW. / 113 MONTG.Y.ST / SAN FRANCISCO."
Inscribednone
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DescriptionImage of a small log cabin built into the side of a sloping hill leading down to a group of gold miners. Some of the men are seated on the hillside next to a man riding a donkey. The others (including one Chinese miner) are posed in the gravel near their sluice box. This half plate daguerreotype is housed in a brass mat inside of a paper covered wooden case with a burgundy embossed liner. The case depicts an image of an urn filled with flowers and the liner is embossed with roses and surrounding foliage.Exhibition HistoryPoints of Entry: A Nation od Strangers, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, September-November 1995, no. 36.
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Stanley B. Burns, Mirror Mirror: The Burns Collection Daguerreotypes (New York: The Burns Archive Press, 2012), pl. 52
Vicki Goldberg and Arthur Ollman, A Nation of Strangers (San Diego: Museum of Photographic Arts, 1995), p. 36
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