Title(s)

Report upon geographical and geological explorations and surveys west of the one hundreth meridian, vol. III - geology (title on object)

Object type

• book

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-794

Inscriptions / marks

• name: ‘E. 7. Dickius’
• name: ‘With the compliments of Geo. M. Wheeler Captain of Engineers. U. S. Army.’

Artist

• M. Wheeler (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Government Printing Office (mentioned on object)
• William Worth Belknap (mentioned on object)
• A.A. Humphreys (mentioned on object)

Place

Washington D.C.

Dating

1875

Material

• cardboard
• paper

Technique

collotype / wood engraving / lithography

Measurements

height 295 mm × width 230 mm × thickness 42 mm

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Parts

• Chocolate butte, Paria creek, Arizona (RP-F-2001-7-794-1)
• Rain sculpture, Salt Creek canon, Utah (RP-F-2001-7-794-2)
• Cleavage in lava, Meadow creek canon, Nevada (RP-F-2001-7-794-3)
• Rock carved by drifting sand, near mouth of Grand Wash, Utah (RP-F-2001-7-794-4)
• Pebbles carved by sand Colorado river (RP-F-2001-7-794-5)
• Rock carved by the Colorado (RP-F-2001-7-794-6)
• Lava from valley of lower Sevier Utah (RP-F-2001-7-794-7)