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Chromolithograph of "Mirage on the Colorado Desert"

U.S. War Department

This tinted lithograph of “Mirage on the Colorado River” was prepared after an original sketch by ah expedition geologist and artist William P. Blake (1826-1910). It was printed as Plate XII in Volume V, Part II following page 250 in the "Geological Report by W. P. Blake, Geologist and Minerologist to the Expedition," as part of Volume V, Part II 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."

Date

1856

Type

print

Medium

paper (overall materials)

Department

NMAH

Institution

National Museum of American History

Object number

nmah_802446

Credit

Estate of Lt. Col. Edgar A. Mearns, USA (Ret.)