Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This tinted lithograph of “Wah-Ha-Ta-Gas or Spanish Peaks from Near Cuchara Aug 6th" was produced by A. Hoen & Company (fl. 1848-1943), Baltimore, after a sketch by John Mix Stanley (1814-1872) and an original sketch by expedition artist R. H. Kern (1821-1853). It was printed as a plate in Volume II following page 34, in the "Report of Explorations for a Route for the Pacific Railroad, by Captain J. W. Gunnison (1812-1853), Topographical Engineers, Near the 38th and 39th Parallels of North Latitude, from the Mouth of the Kansas River, Missouri to the Sevier Lake in the Great Basin" by Lieutenant E. G. Beckwith (1818-1881), Third Artillery.
- The volume was printed as part of the "Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean" in 1855 by A. P. O. Nicholson (1808-1876) of Washington, D.C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- graphic artist
- A. Hoen & Co.
- printer
- Tucker, Beverley
- original artist
- Stanley, John Mix
- Kern, Richard H.
- Date made
- 1855
- Physical Description
- paper (overall materials)
- ink (overall materials)
- Measurements
- overall: 22 cm x 30 cm; 8 11/16 in x 11 13/16 in
- Object Name
- Object Type
- Tinted Lithograph
- Other Terms
- Print; Graphics; Planographic; Lithograph
