COLLECTION NAME:
John Russell Bartlett Collection
Record
Record number:
JRB066
Title:
Junction of the Gila and Colorado Rivers Look up the Gila
Place:
former junction of the Gila and Colorado Rivers, at the base of a hill that was later occupied by the Arizona Territorial Prison in Yuma, Arizona
Date:
June 10-12, 1852
Image technique:
pencil, sepia and wash
Image dimensions:
11.3 x 15.1 inches
Narrative description:
View of a river junction showing five figures in the foreground. This version, unlike the watercolor JRB007, has no flowers on the ocotillo cactus. Also the person on the left appears to be pointing to a horse or mule that is being swept downstream by the current.
Notes:
Related drawing: JRB007.Personal Narrative derivative: vol. 2, p. 158. The Arizona Territorial Prison in Yuma, Arizona, is on the present day Quechan Indian Reservation.
Creators:
John Russell Bartlett
Subject:
Landscape with figures
Normalized date:
1852. 06.10
JRB066
