California Indian Boy. Wylacker Tribe near Shasta - from Life 1852. |
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| Title | Drawings by Henry B. Brown, 1851-1852. |
| Creator | Brown, Henry B., b. 1816 |
| Physical Description | 43 items. |
| Biographical Note | Henry B. Brown was probably born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in January 1816. In the 1840s, he worked as a portrait artist and engraver, and in 1851 he traveled to San Francisco with his friend Jacob Bailey Moore. Brown worked for Moore for the next several months, gathering specimens and making drawings in the California countryside. In March of 1852, he was commissioned by John Russell Bartlett, head of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary Commission and a friend of Moore, to draw views of landscapes and Indians in Northern California, assist with collecting Indian vocabularies, and make maps of the area, with a view towards contributing to Bartlett's book Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua (1854). Brown traveled to New York in the late summer of 1852, and presumably drew his coastal scenes of Mexico and Central America during the trip. From 1856 to 1859, he served as US Consul for Bermuda. Little is known of his life after that date his health was poor at the time of his resignation in 1859, and he may have died in late 1860 or soon after. He should not be confused with the Maine artist Harrison Bird Brown (1831-1915) or with the escaped slave Henry Box Brown (b. 1816). |
| Notes | The forty-two drawings are arranged according to their five general subjects: California Native Americans (7), California landscapes (24), Mexico (4), Central America (6), and Other (1). Although the exact Indian tribes in Brown's drawings are not known, it is believed that they are the Maidu, Nomlaki, Patwin, Wintun, and /or the Shasta. The California landscape drawings include views of San Francisco, Mount Shasta, Marysville, Grass Valley, mining camps, the Sacramento River, and Nevada City. The scenes of Mexico and Central America include Acapulco, the Gulf of California, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador. The drawings are dated 1851 and 1852. There is one undated drawing of the Susquehanna River in Port Deposit, Maryland.;Catherine C. Abbot, Purchase, December 13, 2000.;Unpublished finding aid available in Library. An electronic version is available on the website of Online Archives of California (OAC). Click on the link in this record to view the table of contents. |
| Date | 1851-1852 |
| Subject |
Brown, Henry B., b. 1816. Artists -- California -- 19th century. Drawing, American -- 19th century. Indians of North America -- California -- Drawings. Indians of North America -- California -- Portraits. Maidu Indians -- Drawings. Mines and mineral resources -- California -- Drawings. Mining camps -- California -- Drawings. Nomlaki Indians -- Drawings. Patwin Indians -- Drawings. Shasta Indians -- Drawings. Wintun Indians -- Drawings. California -- Drawings. Central America -- Drawings -- 19th century. Grass Valley (Calif.) -- Drawings. Mexico -- Drawings -- 19th century. Mount Shasta (Calif.) -- Drawings. Nevada City (Calif.) -- Drawings. Ometepe Island (Nicaragua) -- Drawings. Port Deposit (Md.) -- Drawings. Sacramento River (Calif.) -- Drawings. Sacramento Valley (Calif.) -- Drawings. San Francisco (Calif.) -- Drawings. San Juan del Sur Bay (Nicaragua) -- Drawings. Susquehanna River -- Drawings. Tehama County (Calif.) -- Drawings. |
| Form/Genre |
Drawings -- California -- 19th century. (aat) Drawings -- Central America -- 19th century. (aat) Drawings -- Mexico -- 19th century. (aat) Sketches -- California -- 19th century. (aat) Sketches -- Central America -- 19th century. (aat) Sketches -- Mexico -- 19th century. (aat) |
| Department | Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscripts Dept. |
| Part of Object | Drawings by Henry B. Brown, 1851-1852 |
| Call Number | HM 62464 (1-43) |
| Physical Collection | Western Americana Drawings |
| Digital Collection | Manuscripts. Huntington Digital Library |
| Restrictions | Images in this collection are for scholarly research; please review the Huntington Library's copyright information: http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/about . For purchasing images for publication please review our permission to publish policy: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=590 . |
| Language | English [eng] |
| Image Request | To request an image for scholarly research or personal use, please use this form: http://catalog.huntington.org/screens/HDL_photo_form.pdf . Be sure to provide the Unique Digital Identifier (UDID) number with your order; if there is no UDID present please provide call number and title. |
Description
| Title | California Indian Boy. Wylacker Tribe near Shasta - from Life 1852. |
| Creator | Brown, Henry B., b. 1816 |
| Physical Description | 38 x 26 cm. Pencil with watercolor and gouache |
| Notes | Indian boy leaning against tree, with sling and arrows. On verso: "Reddings, near Shasta", term Wylacker from Brown's vocabulary lists, real tribe unknown |
| Date | [1852] |
| Subject | Indians of North America -- California. |
| Form/Genre | Sketches. (gmgpc) |
| Department | Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Manuscripts Dept. |
| Part of Object | Drawings by Henry B. Brown, 1851-1852 |
| Call Number | HM 62464 (1) |
| Physical Collection | Western Americana Drawings |
| Digital Collection | Manuscripts. Huntington Digital Library |
| Restrictions | Images in this collection are for scholarly research; please review the Huntington Library's copyright information: http://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/about . For purchasing images for publication please review our permission to publish policy: http://www.huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=590 . |
| Language | English [eng] |
| Unique Digital Identifier | 27919 |
| Image Request | To request an image for scholarly research or personal use, please use this form: http://catalog.huntington.org/screens/HDL_photo_form.pdf . Be sure to provide the Unique Digital Identifier (UDID) number with your order; if there is no UDID present please provide call number and title. |
