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Gold Mining, Central City
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (American (born in Germany), 1816–1868)
August 28, 1861
Medium/Technique
Watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 35.1 x 26.3 cm (13 13/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Watercolors and Drawings, 1800–1875
Accession Number61.299
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsWatercolors
Catalogue Raisonné
Karolik (1962) cat. 496
DescriptionTwo trees framing sluiceway, center, in mountainside. Cabin left. The Gregory and Potball gold mines in Colorado were the most productive of those opened up by the Pike's Peak gold rush of 1859. The sketch was makde on a trip to the Rocky Mountains in preparation for a mural, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way," commissioned in 1860 for the southwest staircase of the Capitol at Washington.
InscriptionsInscribed lower left in graphite: Central City. / Colorado Teritory / Augst 28th 1861; lower right: Gregory Extension
ProvenanceMaxim Karolik, Newport; Gift to MFA May 10, 1961