Date: | 1896 |
Medium: | wall mural of unknown materials |
Size: | 10 by 12 feet (estimated) |
Inscription: | n.v. |
Verso: | not applicable |
Provenance: | in collection of Oak Grove Lodge 215, Free and Accepted Masons, Alameda, California; the building has since been sold and the murals may have been destroyed. |
Reproductions: | Photograph by Philip A. C. Harris, c. 1930; San Francisco Chronicle, 24 April 1896; Sherman, Edward A., Fifty Years of Masonry in California, page 406; |
Site: | Mount Shasta, Caalifornia, viewed from the southwest through an unidentified river valley. |
Description: | A snow-capped Mount Shasta stands in the center under a cloudless sky. A river flows in the center directly toward the viewer, over a small waterfall. Both banks of the river are forested; at the left edge is a large, boulder with a pointed top, while behind the forest on the right in the middle distance is a rocky ridge. (From a monochrome photograph.) |
Note: | This was one of five [Murals of the Masonic lodge, Alameda, California]. For more information, see the notes in that entry. |
Identification: | From Sherman and the San Francisco Chronicle report. |
In index(es): | Title list, Mount Shasta and Shastina, murals |