Sketchbooks of Alexander Edouart, 1858.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Sketchbooks of Alexander Edouart, 1858.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228735817

The sketchbooks include portraits of gold miners, men on horseback, and California Indians; sketches of mines and mining towns; and landscape scenes throughout northern California including Fort Bragg, Mattole Valley, Cape Mendocino, the Round Valley Indian Reservation, and Shelter Cove. The sketchbooks include draft sketches for Edouart's paintings "Blessing of the Enrequita Mine" and "Fort Bragg." Also included is a hand drawn map of the area included in the sketches.

2 volumes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7088375

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Edouart, Alexander, 1818-1892.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tr0bv6 (person)

Alexander Edouart, artist and photographer, was born in London in 1818 and came to San Francisco in 1852; he later opened an art studio on Montgomery Street. In 1858 Edouart accompanied a hunting party throughout northern California; while on the trip, Edouart made several sketches, some of which he later used as the basis for his paintings. Edouart died in Los Angeles in 1892. From the description of Sketchbooks of Alexander Edouart, 1858. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & ...