Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This tinted lithograph of “Los Angeles" was produced by Thomas Sinclair (1805-1881) after an original sketch by expedition artist Charles Koppel (fl. 1853-1865). It was printed as Plate X in Volume V, Part I, following page 34, in the "General Report," part of the “Routes in California, to Connect with the Routes near the Thirty–Fifth and Thirty–Second Parallels, Explored by Lieutenant R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers, in 1853."
- 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 1856 by A. P. O. Nicholson (1808-1876) of Washington, D.C.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- publisher
- U.S. War Department
- printer
- Tucker, Beverley
- author
- Williamson, Robert Stockton
- original artist
- Koppel, Charles
- graphic artist
- unknown
- publisher
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Topographic Command
- date made
- 1856
- Credit Line
- Estate of Lt. Col. Edgar A. Mearns, USA (Ret.)
- Physical Description
- paper (overall materials)
- ink (overall materials)
- Measurements
- overall: 23.3 cm x 29.8 cm; 9 3/16 in x 11 3/4 in
- Object Name
- Object Type
- Tinted Lithograph
- Other Terms
- print; Chromolithograph
